If a licensee is the driver or an occupant of a motor vehicle that is stopped as the result of a traffic stop or a stop for another law enforcement purpose and if the licensee is transporting or has a loaded handgun in the motor vehicle at that time, the licensee shall promptly inform any law enforcement officer who approaches the vehicle while stopped that the licensee has been issued a concealed handgun license and that the licensee currently possesses or has a loaded handgun
Thanks guys. We are driving from Ohio to Alabama.
If I am the passenger and we get pulled over do I need to inform the officer that I am carryingz
Thanks guys. We are driving from Ohio to Alabama.
PURELY a state and or local matter.If I am the passenger and we get pulled over do I need to inform the officer that I am carryingz
If it's a "must notify" state it's NOT a "courtesy". It's the LAW. I recommend that everyone obey the LAW, nothing more, nothing less.If it's a "must notify" state, I would just as a courtesy. If the LEO asks you any questions in the line of duty, then in my state, you must notify immediately regardless of whether or not you're the driver.
If somehow you DO have a CHL license from somewhere in Ohio, PLEASE list the instructor's name and phone no. so he can be reported to NRA as incompetent!
Really? So every instructor is supposed to cover every possible legal situation? Let's see, what if I am carrying in an RV that someone else is driving, and I am in the back eating a sandwich and they get stopped for something.
Or what if I am a truck driver and I am asleep in the sleeper with a loaded handgun readily accessible and the driver gets stopped?
Just because an instructor did not cover one particular possible scenario does not make them incompetent. Just like not every police officer could possibly know every single criminal law in their jurisdiction - that does not make them incompetent.
Deanimator may remember this, but a couple of years ago an Ohio concealed carry association both he and I are affiliated with were trying to maximize attendance at an event. There was an effort to arrange vans, and in some cases possibly even small buses, to transport members of the organization to the location of the event. Someone on the forums made a post that he'd love to see the cop that pulled one of those vans or buses over when he had to be notified by each and every person in the vehicle. That cop would have been standing there listening to notifications for several minutes.....If you're in a car that's pulled over, that means that EVERYBODY in that vehicle who has an Ohio CHL or recognized equivalent AND who is armed, needs to notify INDIVIDUALLY. Furthermore, EVERY time an LEO who was not previously notified makes contact with ANY of the occupants of the vehicle during that stop, EVERYBODY lawfully carrying needs to notify again.....
Yes, really.
The OP was not asleep in a truck sleeper, nor was he eating a sandwich in the back of an RV: he clearly stated he was a passenger in a car pulled over.
Here in Ohio, we are a must inform state. This is probably the most repeated and most basic 101 of CHL class in Ohio and thus repeated over and over. It is written in multiple places in our state attorney's official CHL handbook given to every CHL candidate. If this OP came away without this knowledge thoroughly embedded in his mind then he either did not go through the class or the instructor needs to be stopped. I stand by my comment.
They wanted mandatory notification. I say give it to them good and hard! :biggrin:Deanimator may remember this, but a couple of years ago an Ohio concealed carry association both he and I are affiliated with were trying to maximize attendance at an event. There was an effort to arrange vans, and in some cases possibly even small buses, to transport members of the organization to the location of the event. Someone on the forums made a post that he'd love to see the cop that pulled one of those vans or buses over when he had to be notified by each and every person in the vehicle. That cop would have been standing there listening to notifications for several minutes.