Pat Riot
Contributing Member
I completely understand what @BJung is trying to say. I lived in CA for years and coincidentally I worked in rail public transit in some of the worst neighborhoods in California. Watts, Compton, Inglewood, Long Beach.
I will not ride public transit. The lowest of the low are predators on rail transit. A lot happens that the public doesn’t hear about. Fights, knifings, shootings happen often and unless someone actually dies, the public doesn’t hear a peep. Why? Money to keep finding transit.
The law in CA states that if you have a CCW in counties that will issue them and somehow your weapon is exposed and you’re reported you will lose your permit. There is NO open carry allowed in most places and in places that do allow it the gun cannot be loaded. Yes, you read it right. The gun cannot be loaded.
I was pulled to the side by LA Sheriff’s Deputies because a lady said I had a gun. I was at work on a train riding the line inspecting rail cars. I had my ID badge on and a safety vest identifying me as an employee. I raised my arm to grab a rail to hold on as the train went into braking. She saw a black holster and reported me. The holster was my nylon Leatherman sheath.
Even though the deputies verified it was a tool pouch there was still a write up in the security reports as “a man with a gun was detained”. Not “an employee with a tool sheath”. Sensationalism rules the day and drives tax dollars into the coffers of law enforcement and the transit agency “to fight crime” while known gangbangers are left to do as they please.
I will not ride public transit. The lowest of the low are predators on rail transit. A lot happens that the public doesn’t hear about. Fights, knifings, shootings happen often and unless someone actually dies, the public doesn’t hear a peep. Why? Money to keep finding transit.
The law in CA states that if you have a CCW in counties that will issue them and somehow your weapon is exposed and you’re reported you will lose your permit. There is NO open carry allowed in most places and in places that do allow it the gun cannot be loaded. Yes, you read it right. The gun cannot be loaded.
I was pulled to the side by LA Sheriff’s Deputies because a lady said I had a gun. I was at work on a train riding the line inspecting rail cars. I had my ID badge on and a safety vest identifying me as an employee. I raised my arm to grab a rail to hold on as the train went into braking. She saw a black holster and reported me. The holster was my nylon Leatherman sheath.
Even though the deputies verified it was a tool pouch there was still a write up in the security reports as “a man with a gun was detained”. Not “an employee with a tool sheath”. Sensationalism rules the day and drives tax dollars into the coffers of law enforcement and the transit agency “to fight crime” while known gangbangers are left to do as they please.