Honest question though, and please please please don’t turn this into a bashing debating thread as I’d like to keep it on topic. I’m curious bout how people carry also.
As to my question, I’m not LEO so I’m sure there’s a reason i don’t know, but why disarm a licensed carrier? Is this common, or do you only do it to ones that seem sketchy or acting weird? Just curious so we as carriers can learn how to keep our LEO’s at ease so we don’t make them tense in normal situations
I did not say I disarmed anyone. There are times, like a crash for example, where the licensed carrier becomes separated from their firearm and I end up securing it. That's just one example, but I'm not talking about taking their guns from an enforcement standpoint.
Ohhhh ok, I gotcha. Has there ever been a time when you have disarmed someone? If so is it a behavioral thing or is it more of a situational thing, like a suspected incident that you’re checking into? Thanks for the reply also!!
My standard response when someone tells me that they are legally carrying is "don't pull yours and I won't pull mine". Of course there have been times where I have felt compelled to disarm someone, but there was most definitely an articulable reason for me to do so. The act of carrying itself does not necessarily make my spidey senses perk up.
I just checked, and I am down one in the magazine at the moment (9+1 instead of the full magazine of 10 plus 1 chambered).
I take my dogs on an off-leash walk basically every day on a decent-sized country property. One of them doesn't always come when called when he is on the scent of something; it's like tunnel vision for all of his senses. (It's not that he's ignoring; it's that he has blocked out everything else. A couple times I've caught up to him, and he's totally startled to be touched.)
A gunshot gets him to quit tracking and to listen to me again. Sometimes it's months between when this happens, but it seems to come in spurts. And I don't always remember to reload right away. Once I had the magazine as low as 7 when I remembered to reload it--which would be forgetting twice consecutively--but I don't think I've ever gone past that.
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure the last time was on Friday.