clubsoda22
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Here's the situation, i don't have a CWP yet, but i plan on getting it the day i turn 21. My college is in a bad neighborhood, i'll be getting a place near it (still a bad neighborhood) mainly because Campus Safety sucks and i want to be responsible for my own protection. I can't keep guns in my dorm. In fact, they don't want me carrying guns on campus. It is "strictly forbidden." Realize that there is no law preventing anyone with the proper permit from carrying a gun on a college campus (only primary and secondary schools), but only a policy that calls for bad stuff to happen to you within the limits of what the university can do to you.
So here's the deal, more than once i have been pulled over on campus by the local PD, always for BS like "suspicious vehicle." Really, i understand that they are just making sure the college students aren't driving around drunk or stoned and my window tint leads my car to sook suspect and i'm cool with that because they are generally nice about it (only their supervisor dislikes me, but that's because he doesn't like volunteer firefighters...a long story).
Now, a lot of you guys say that you tell the officer you're carrying or hand him your CWP with your licence. Now, whenever the campus rent-a-cops see a traffic stop on campus they start nosing around trying to look like real cops. They unfortunately have a good working relationship with the locals and don't like me (another supervisor, this time a campus safety supervisor, with issues about volunteer firefighters). So, given the situation with the rent-a-cops poking around, would you just keep it to yourself? In PA there's no requirement to inform. I know it's nice to tell the officer, and if it was anywhere else i would...but i'd be hesitant telling the locals as it might get out to campus safety and end with the college acting on their anti-gun policies.
To give you an idea of how serious they are, i was overheared by a campus rent-a-cop saying to another student that licenced individuals should be able to carry (I was discussing a recent on campus armed mugging, of which there are several each month). My room was searched at 2:30am by campus safety that night.
Does anyone know if CWP's pop up on the police computer (in PA) when they run your drivers licence? If so i guess it wouldn't matter because i'll just have to rely on the cop not shooting off his mouth to the campus safety guys anyway. In that case i might as well tell him and ask politely that the wannabe in the chevy impala with the amber lightbar parked behind him not know.
So here's the deal, more than once i have been pulled over on campus by the local PD, always for BS like "suspicious vehicle." Really, i understand that they are just making sure the college students aren't driving around drunk or stoned and my window tint leads my car to sook suspect and i'm cool with that because they are generally nice about it (only their supervisor dislikes me, but that's because he doesn't like volunteer firefighters...a long story).
Now, a lot of you guys say that you tell the officer you're carrying or hand him your CWP with your licence. Now, whenever the campus rent-a-cops see a traffic stop on campus they start nosing around trying to look like real cops. They unfortunately have a good working relationship with the locals and don't like me (another supervisor, this time a campus safety supervisor, with issues about volunteer firefighters). So, given the situation with the rent-a-cops poking around, would you just keep it to yourself? In PA there's no requirement to inform. I know it's nice to tell the officer, and if it was anywhere else i would...but i'd be hesitant telling the locals as it might get out to campus safety and end with the college acting on their anti-gun policies.
To give you an idea of how serious they are, i was overheared by a campus rent-a-cop saying to another student that licenced individuals should be able to carry (I was discussing a recent on campus armed mugging, of which there are several each month). My room was searched at 2:30am by campus safety that night.
Does anyone know if CWP's pop up on the police computer (in PA) when they run your drivers licence? If so i guess it wouldn't matter because i'll just have to rely on the cop not shooting off his mouth to the campus safety guys anyway. In that case i might as well tell him and ask politely that the wannabe in the chevy impala with the amber lightbar parked behind him not know.
