So Chris stops home to pick me up to go to lunch. "How do I look," I ask him, referring not to my super stylish Appleseed shirt but rather to how my firearm is printing beneath said shirt. "You're printing," he says, "But it's okay, no one here notices anyway." So we hop in the car and head to Chik Fil A (which is the sole redeeming quality this place has, according to Chris). Along with what looks to be the entire police department. There's a long line, and we were standing in it for 5-10 minutes, LEOs in front and behind us, me sporting an Appleseed shirt that is printing my gun quite nicely, discussing the SERPA holsters some of the LEOs were wearing.
No one noticed.
Wtb. Outboard
2 hours ago
I sometimes get the same thing while OPEN carrying. No one seems to notice, there is no hysteria, and the only places that have told me to cover up were GUN STORES! WTF?
ReplyDeleteTo be fair, it may be more a matter of no one cared.
ReplyDeleteIt took fully half an hour after the police arrived at my accident for them to ask for my handgun carry permit, and I was openly carrying the entire time.
My last armed police interaction, car wreck in Anchorage over a decade ago, I informed the officer I was carrying, he asked where in a disinterestedly curious way, I answered, he looked, said something like "huh, well don't take it out", and we went on with the report.
ReplyDeleteI think most experienced cops, like then Off. Derek Hsiea(?), have good enough "badguy-dar" to not really care about "good guy" carry.
If you are printing they are probably "aware" of it, but it's only one factor out of many of how they judge people.
I've run into new guys, years before then when carry was still new in Alaska, who got a little exciteable but most are pretty blase now in my limited experience.
Same old "passing the hello test", just in a new context.