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Most LEO are fine with citizen carry.

Way back pre-CHL days (mid-1980s), we were house sitting for our neighbors. Mrs. Anygun and I were feeding their animals and I discovered the rear window was broken. I quietly checked the back door and it was unlocked. I grabbed Mrs. Anygun by the arm and escorted her away quickly, went home, and called Chambers CO SO.

I knew the deputy that responded. I was Chief of EMS then and interacted with him often. I explained what I found and he told me to go with him. Before we left the house he asked me if I had a handgun. I answered yes and he told me to bring it. I fetched my SA GI model and tucked it in my back. Did not have any holsters back then except for my hunting pistols.

Chambers CO only had 2-3 deputies for the whole county back then so he essentially had no backup coming.

We entered the house him in the lead. It was dark-30 when we entered. He started searching the house and when we entered the kitchen his flashlight beam illuminated their pet bird. The bird went nuts screaming and flying in the cage. Scared the bejeebers out of us both. The deputy swore he almost shot the bird.

We did not find anything missing. We finally reached our neighbors. Seems the wife unit forgot to lock the door and the window was already broken. We just never noticed it.

Most of the time we wrongly assume that LEOs are against carry. I find that this is not true, at least in Texas. The vocal ones that do mind garner all of our attention and rightly so.

In my experience above, it says a lot for the trust that LEO often place in us. Most of them know that we will help them when they need us, and I truly think that this goes for the majority of my brothers and sisters on this forum, if not the Texas CHL community as a whole.

Thank the Lord for our fine LEOs, and thank the Lord for our 2A right to keep and bear arms.

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