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Accidental exposure.

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Was at my deer lease near Sour Lake for a few days and while I'm there I always keep my Glock 20SF on my hip in a Fobus paddle holster. Went into town the other night to get some supplies at a local grocery store and since it was getting late my son and I decided to eat at DQ. I had on a sweatshirt that usually covers most if not all of the gun and a jacket. After we ordered and went to sit at a table I took off my jacket and laid it on my seat, completely exposing my gun as the sweatshirt had ridden up and was resting on the holster. I then headed to the bathroom to wash my hands. Luckily there were only 3 people in the place but one guy looked at me kinda strange. When I got in the bathroom and looked in the mirror I could see my pistol was exposed. Startled me for a sec but I just covered it back up with my sweatshirt and went back to eat. Nothing was ever said by anyone but was a good reminder to me to make sure I'm concealed before entering an establishment.
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Re: Accidental exposure.

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It was not "intentional failure to conceal" and no law was therefore broken. All the same, I'll bet your eyes bugged out when you saw yourself in the mirror. :mrgreen:
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Re: Accidental exposure.

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not to nit-pick, but to make you aware of your thought process.
Txfire409 wrote:I had on a sweatshirt that usually covers most if not all of the gun and a jacket
then you took off your jacket.
but my issue is that you know that the sweatshirt "usually covers most if not all" - the most tells me that you should not use that as your cover and your jacket should have stayed on.
While I agree with TAM, you did not intentionally fail to conceal, but in a way, with your words, I could make a case that you did intentionally fail to conceal, by knowlingly using a cover that does not cover all, but "most" of your gun.
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Re: Accidental exposure.

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Teamless wrote:not to nit-pick, but to make you aware of your thought process.
Txfire409 wrote:I had on a sweatshirt that usually covers most if not all of the gun and a jacket
then you took off your jacket.
but my issue is that you know that the sweatshirt "usually covers most if not all" - the most tells me that you should not use that as your cover and your jacket should have stayed on.
While I agree with TAM, you did not intentionally fail to conceal, but in a way, with your words, I could make a case that you did intentionally fail to conceal, by knowlingly using a cover that does not cover all, but "most" of your gun.
I see your point and cant disagree. This would never be my regular concealed carry attire. At the deer lease I usually open carry but had on the sweatshirt due to cooler temps at night. What it comes down to is I completely forgot I had the gun on me as I get so use to wearing it out there, especially for days at a time.
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Post by texanjoker »

Sounds like everybody was level headed. I was getting my windows tinted 2 days ago and another customer kept looking at my waist. I don't know how he could see I had a weapon, but I am sure that was what he was looking at.
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