I was just sitting next to a lady to my right at a conference table working on some paperwork and had my windbreaker on (with my Colt .38 Official Police in a RIGHT hand shoulder holster on the left side). I lean across the table to write something down and she says (in a humorous tone) "Okay, what are you packing."
"packing?"
She nods and puts makes a hand motion reaching for a gun on her left side.
"a gun?"
she nodded and said "you've got something showing/bulging through your coat"
"oh, no! That's my cell phone."
"okay hahaha"
and instantly started turing attention backto what we were doing.
I did in fact have the gun on....but what she saw imprinted through the side of my windbreaker wasn't a gun....it was the double speedloader pouches. I went back to my hotel room later to see what she saw and leaned forward allowing the windbreaker to stretch and I could BARELY see something imprinting just under my armpit
I didn't show her my "cell phone" (why wouldn't I do that? she might think)
I don't know if she bought it (I kind of doubt it, it was a dumb lie and, to me, an obvious evasion.)
My friend was standing in the room with us working on something else (he knows I carry) and just said after we got outside, "why didn't you just tell her?"
I said I don't want other people to know I carry. I don't know how she will respond to it, if she will use it against me, if she will tell anyone else and get everyone else (including my supervisor) nervous and start worrying about where and when I am carrying.
"packing?"
She nods and puts makes a hand motion reaching for a gun on her left side.
"a gun?"
she nodded and said "you've got something showing/bulging through your coat"
"oh, no! That's my cell phone."
"okay hahaha"
and instantly started turing attention backto what we were doing.
I did in fact have the gun on....but what she saw imprinted through the side of my windbreaker wasn't a gun....it was the double speedloader pouches. I went back to my hotel room later to see what she saw and leaned forward allowing the windbreaker to stretch and I could BARELY see something imprinting just under my armpit
I didn't show her my "cell phone" (why wouldn't I do that? she might think)
I don't know if she bought it (I kind of doubt it, it was a dumb lie and, to me, an obvious evasion.)
My friend was standing in the room with us working on something else (he knows I carry) and just said after we got outside, "why didn't you just tell her?"
I said I don't want other people to know I carry. I don't know how she will respond to it, if she will use it against me, if she will tell anyone else and get everyone else (including my supervisor) nervous and start worrying about where and when I am carrying.
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and that if I ever brought my gun to work I'd be fired on the spot. (Now a surplus Mauser with a scope isn't even concealable unless you're a pirate). I decided that if I was fired it might as well be then and told them that I'd never be stuped enough to bring a rifle to work and that I felt I was being 
meeting. The discrimination, life style arguement is definatly freedom of speech/ expression. Had I argued that I, along with all men, have a right endowed by our Creator to keep and bear arms they would have laughed and pointed out that the property owner decides if I can have a gun on his land and not God. Also they could have said my choice of conversation was creating a hostile work enviornment. I wanted to avoid this and just let them know I'm no idiot, that they couldn't just push me around! And of course buy time until I found a better job.
, can you say law suit!
