Liberty wrote:Rotgirl wrote:
So now, for the first time, I get to say it........"I am a licensed CHL holder and I am carrying."
You might want to reconsider how you identify yourself as a CHL holder who is carrying. I present my license and CHL at the same time. If I am not carrying I let them know that. If I am carrying I let the officer bring up the subject if they wish. My concern is that I don't want the the officer to in any way consider my mentioning a gun as a threat. I don't want to give the officer more information than he wants. We are under no obligation to inform the officer that we are armed until he asks although presenting our CHL does provide a big clue. I suppose it depends on the situation, but I've displayed my CHL a few times, and none seemed interested enough to ask if I'm carrying or where it is.
I'm split on this. I've always just handed over the DL & CHL and waited for the LEO to ask the question. But I hear from some LEOs that they prefer that we be pro-active in telling them that we are carrying.
As for LEOs being interested or not, I actually had a motorcycle cop in Austin about 2 years ago become VERY interested when he asked "where is your weapon sir?" and I told him it was in the front pocket of my pants and he said "No way, really?" then asked what I was carrying. I told him a Kahr PM40 (my primary carry at the time) and he said "Cool. I've heard those are good guns. How do you like it?" .. we then proceeded to have a two-minute conversation about guns on the side of the road (he was looking for a good "back up piece") before he issued me a warning and sent me on my way.
