Here's my 2 cents.dac1842 wrote:Here is my two cents.
1- I dont drink or go into bars. I am as opposed to carrying and drinking as I am to drinking and driving. Guns and alcohol do not mix.
2- I will continue to provide any LEO that stops me with both CHL and DL, as well as telling him that I am a CHL holder and that I am carrying. I will tell him I am ex LEO, and if he feels better disarming me then I will be happy to allow him to do so. I have done this since the day I had a CHL, I did this prior to CHL and I have NEVER had any LEO disarm me, nor have I ever received a ticket.
1) I drink and go in bars. Sometimes I have a meal and drink. I am as opposed to drinking and going to work as I am to drinking and driving. Work and alcohol don't mix, unless you're a bartender. I don't go armed into 51% establishments on purpose. I wouldn't carry a firearm while intoxicated.
2) If I am carrying under the authority of my CHL and a Texas Peace Officer or Magistrate asks me for identification, I will produce my DL and CHL. That is unless I happen to have forgotten them (unlikely). In that case I will display neither, since I don't have them. I will not tell him that I'm ex-LEO, since I'm not... and it's irrelevant. I won't tell him that I'm ex-military, since... it's irrelevant. Since I've had my CHL sometimes I've received traffic a ticket and sometimes I haven't. When carrying, I've produced my CHL and when I wasn't, I didn't. I never had a LEO disarm me.
Once in 1992 before the CHL law, I was stopped by a Texas Peace Officer. I wasn't carrying a handgun because it was illegal to do so, and I didn't have a defense to prosecution. I didn't tell her that I was ex-military (honorable discharge 90 days earlier), because it was irrelevant. She saw a base sticker on my car and asked me where I served and when I got out. Since she asked, I decided to tell her. I didn't get a ticket...Why? Maybe because I didn't commit a traffic offense. We'll never know.
I didn't get CHL to prove I was a good guy. I got it initially so I could have a Defense to Prosecution for carrying a concealed handgun. Then after 1997, so I was exempt from most PC46.02 prohibitions on carrying a handgun.