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Very good info. Thank you all.

In my case, I carry on my right side in a crossbreed supertuck and it would be very difficult if not impossible for them to disarm me while I was still in my vehicle. I am a pretty big guy and unless he was 7 feet tall and had elastic arms, it just would not work out. The reason I asked was because I was watching some tv show (maybe cops or something like it, or maybe just some stupid comedy, don't really remember) where an officer pulled out a firearm and it went off while he was holding it. I started thinking about it. I like the idea of asking first and that is most likely what I would do.

I do live in Dallas and have never had an encounter locally outside of my own property. I did run into a park ranger in Arkansas while I was riding my ATV . He asked if I had any guns, knives or any other weapons he should know about and I said yes. He was unarmed himself and conceivably alone in a forest with no backup around encountering 2 redneck looking guys from Texas that were twice his size and one of them armed. He was very eager to get on his way. When he asked for my ID, I told him it was in my atv bag in the same compartment as my firearm. He no longer wanted to see it so he wrote the ticket to the other person I was with and left quickly. I of course offered to split the cost of the ticket with my buddy, but I jokingly suggested that if he had his chl, we probably would have gotten out of their scott free.

Hypothetical question. If someone is pulled over and asked to surrender their weapon, should the magazine be removed and the chamber cleared, or would this action be alarming to a Leo?

I have always been taught to do this before handing my weapon over to anyone, period. I do not want to be responsible for someone who does not know what they are doing accidentally shooting themselves or someone else, including a police officer who should be trained to properly handle weapons.