Ok, before I begin, let me just say I'm not posting this to complain about the officer's actions so I'm not looking to turn this into a cop-bashing thread.
So I was driving to work (about 2 hours away on this particular day) and an airplane apparently measured my speed at about 16mph over the limit on the freeway. That's probably the fastest I had driven that day and my speedometer suggested about 3mph lower, but honestly when it comes to speeding tickets I know I used up my speeder karma a long time ago so I don't nitpick. I know when I'm speeding and I know the consequences, no arguments here.
So a state trooper flags me down and I pull over. He asks for license & registration and I start my concealed carry spiel: "I'm required by law to inform you I have a concealed handgun license and am currently carrying a-"
Trooper: "Is there a weapon anywhere in the vehicle?"
Me: "Yes, I have a-"
Trooper: "Where is it?"
----now keep in mind the spotter plane is keeping this guy and another trooper busy pulling people over and radioing vehicle descriptions, etc. so he's kind of in a hurry and distracted----
Me: "It's holstered here (gesture) under my shirt."
Trooper: "Can you pull up your shirt for me?"
Me: "Uhh, yeah?" (pulls up shirt slowly & awkwardly while sitting in the car)
Trooper: "Okay uhh, hand it to me, butt first, and uhh, okay tell you what..."
He then reached down and pulled my gun out of my IWB holster and told me he'd bring it back in a minute. After writing my citation he walks back and hands me my gun with no magazine and the slide locked back.
Trooper: "Here. Just put this away for now. I'll give you the rest in a minute."
Then he explains some other things related to the traffic stop and hands me back my loaded magazine and the bullet that was previously chambered in my pistol. After that he left me sitting there with a magazine and a bullet and my gun sitting on the seat. I honestly didn't feel comfortable picking the gun back up and reloading it while he was standing by the car in front of me so I had to do it when I got to work. It makes no sense to me to disarm somebody who tells you flat-out that they have a loaded gun on them & where they have it, and who had to pass a background check, etc. to obtain the "right" to do so. I have had about a half-dozen encounters with law enforcement over the past 4.5 years that I've had the permit (traffic stops, reported a burglary at work, etc.) and I've never had any of them actually make a point to take my gun from me and unload it. So weird...
So I was driving to work (about 2 hours away on this particular day) and an airplane apparently measured my speed at about 16mph over the limit on the freeway. That's probably the fastest I had driven that day and my speedometer suggested about 3mph lower, but honestly when it comes to speeding tickets I know I used up my speeder karma a long time ago so I don't nitpick. I know when I'm speeding and I know the consequences, no arguments here.
So a state trooper flags me down and I pull over. He asks for license & registration and I start my concealed carry spiel: "I'm required by law to inform you I have a concealed handgun license and am currently carrying a-"
Trooper: "Is there a weapon anywhere in the vehicle?"
Me: "Yes, I have a-"
Trooper: "Where is it?"
----now keep in mind the spotter plane is keeping this guy and another trooper busy pulling people over and radioing vehicle descriptions, etc. so he's kind of in a hurry and distracted----
Me: "It's holstered here (gesture) under my shirt."
Trooper: "Can you pull up your shirt for me?"
Me: "Uhh, yeah?" (pulls up shirt slowly & awkwardly while sitting in the car)
Trooper: "Okay uhh, hand it to me, butt first, and uhh, okay tell you what..."
He then reached down and pulled my gun out of my IWB holster and told me he'd bring it back in a minute. After writing my citation he walks back and hands me my gun with no magazine and the slide locked back.
Trooper: "Here. Just put this away for now. I'll give you the rest in a minute."
Then he explains some other things related to the traffic stop and hands me back my loaded magazine and the bullet that was previously chambered in my pistol. After that he left me sitting there with a magazine and a bullet and my gun sitting on the seat. I honestly didn't feel comfortable picking the gun back up and reloading it while he was standing by the car in front of me so I had to do it when I got to work. It makes no sense to me to disarm somebody who tells you flat-out that they have a loaded gun on them & where they have it, and who had to pass a background check, etc. to obtain the "right" to do so. I have had about a half-dozen encounters with law enforcement over the past 4.5 years that I've had the permit (traffic stops, reported a burglary at work, etc.) and I've never had any of them actually make a point to take my gun from me and unload it. So weird...