I was recently pulled over (about 2 days after reading more than my fair share of the Ohio PD incident). It was the first time I had my CCW, and ironically I was coming home from the range. Because of that I actually had my weapon(s) in the trunk.
After the standard "hands on the wheel, both licenses out & ready, appropriate use of yes sir, etc...", the Lieutenant asks me if I have my weapon and I reply "yes, but it's in the trunk". He politely informs me that if everything checks out with my license I'll be receiving a verbal warning for failure to yield. He comes back and everything's fine. He was very professional and I expected him to be as I've always thought this police department as a whole is one of the best that I've ever dealt with.
But between the stop and the Ohio incident it did get me thinking (and caused me to have a conversation with my wife as to what MAY happen).
When an officer pulls you over and you do have your weapon concealed on you, what USUALLY happens? I expect it will either be the officer telling me to just keep my hands on the wheel and not to fiddle with the weapon while he checks out my information. I also expect that it COULD be he asks me to get out of the car, checks the weapon for his safety and any number of things. To be honest, I don't have a problem with just about anything that could happen there, as I want the officer to be as comfortable as he can be (going with the 2 guys super nervous with guns never works well plan).
I did inform my wife that worst case scenario could be I get put in handcuffs while he removes my weapon, sits me down on the curb/street/whatever, and checks my information. Surprisingly I'm still pretty ok with that, I just wonder what the norm is. I can't imagine they'd all go as wonderful as this, but then I do live in Texas, where I believe the average officer would think of the CHL holder as one of the good guys.
After the standard "hands on the wheel, both licenses out & ready, appropriate use of yes sir, etc...", the Lieutenant asks me if I have my weapon and I reply "yes, but it's in the trunk". He politely informs me that if everything checks out with my license I'll be receiving a verbal warning for failure to yield. He comes back and everything's fine. He was very professional and I expected him to be as I've always thought this police department as a whole is one of the best that I've ever dealt with.
But between the stop and the Ohio incident it did get me thinking (and caused me to have a conversation with my wife as to what MAY happen).
When an officer pulls you over and you do have your weapon concealed on you, what USUALLY happens? I expect it will either be the officer telling me to just keep my hands on the wheel and not to fiddle with the weapon while he checks out my information. I also expect that it COULD be he asks me to get out of the car, checks the weapon for his safety and any number of things. To be honest, I don't have a problem with just about anything that could happen there, as I want the officer to be as comfortable as he can be (going with the 2 guys super nervous with guns never works well plan).
I did inform my wife that worst case scenario could be I get put in handcuffs while he removes my weapon, sits me down on the curb/street/whatever, and checks my information. Surprisingly I'm still pretty ok with that, I just wonder what the norm is. I can't imagine they'd all go as wonderful as this, but then I do live in Texas, where I believe the average officer would think of the CHL holder as one of the good guys.