Out of consideration for Kramer1113, hopefully he won't feel this is pi$$ing on someone else's posting.
Was going to take part in a limb deficiency march sponsered by a local Seattle hospital for persons missing limbs. The march got cancelled. Normally my daughter walks with a prosthetic leg, but this was right after surgery, so I was pushing her in a wheel chair. A Seattle police officer helped me lift her wheel chair over a curb. Neither he nor I said anything about the concealed firearm I was carrying.
Waiting at a red light, I turned left as soon as it changed green, thinking it was a green arrow. Nope, it was a green circle. The car stopped at the opposite light just happened to be a state patrol. He pulled me over for "failure to yield" which I was guilty as sin of. I explained my mistake, he said be more careful and let me go with a warning. Not a word was said about the firearm I was carrying at the time or my license to carry it by him or I.
Traveling through a well known speed trap on a road that goes from 50 to 35 mph due to the presence of a grocery store on the road, I forgot to reset my cruise control and got stopped by the sheriff. Let go with a warning after a pleasant conversation. Not a word was said about the firearm I was carrying at the time or my license to carry it by him or I.
My all time favorite... looking for a park where a picnic was going to be that my wife wanted to go to with our daughter and her friend in the back seat. Stopped for speeding - over 40mph in a 25. Stop goes completely routine until the officer returns from his vehicle and asks me to exit my vehicle. I am open carrying a Taurus SS .45 in a belt holster. Can't leave it in the car loaded with the others who do not have CPLs. Didn't want to handle the gun to unload it. By the time it registered with me what he asked me to do, he was already waiting for me in the space between his vehicle and mine. So, oh well, I exit the vehicle and walk carefully back to meet him. He said he didn't want to lecture me in front of the family but I should be more careful, let me go with a warning. Not a word was said about the firearm in plain view by either him or I, or my license to carry it.
I could list many more pleasant LEO encounters here including talking to the Chiefs of Police of Oak Harbor and Anacortes and the Skagit County Sheriff after an Oak Harbor city council meeting and a meeting of the Fidalgo Democrats, both meetings attended with an openly carried firearm. I could also list a few pleasant LEO encounters where I did get a ticket, I don't consider the officer to be unpleasant just because they are doing their job.
I could also list two bad experiences with Oak Harbor Police Department Officers and the former Chief of Police.
So, Mr. Kramer, feel free to pi$$ on my post.
Was going to take part in a limb deficiency march sponsered by a local Seattle hospital for persons missing limbs. The march got cancelled. Normally my daughter walks with a prosthetic leg, but this was right after surgery, so I was pushing her in a wheel chair. A Seattle police officer helped me lift her wheel chair over a curb. Neither he nor I said anything about the concealed firearm I was carrying.
Waiting at a red light, I turned left as soon as it changed green, thinking it was a green arrow. Nope, it was a green circle. The car stopped at the opposite light just happened to be a state patrol. He pulled me over for "failure to yield" which I was guilty as sin of. I explained my mistake, he said be more careful and let me go with a warning. Not a word was said about the firearm I was carrying at the time or my license to carry it by him or I.
Traveling through a well known speed trap on a road that goes from 50 to 35 mph due to the presence of a grocery store on the road, I forgot to reset my cruise control and got stopped by the sheriff. Let go with a warning after a pleasant conversation. Not a word was said about the firearm I was carrying at the time or my license to carry it by him or I.
My all time favorite... looking for a park where a picnic was going to be that my wife wanted to go to with our daughter and her friend in the back seat. Stopped for speeding - over 40mph in a 25. Stop goes completely routine until the officer returns from his vehicle and asks me to exit my vehicle. I am open carrying a Taurus SS .45 in a belt holster. Can't leave it in the car loaded with the others who do not have CPLs. Didn't want to handle the gun to unload it. By the time it registered with me what he asked me to do, he was already waiting for me in the space between his vehicle and mine. So, oh well, I exit the vehicle and walk carefully back to meet him. He said he didn't want to lecture me in front of the family but I should be more careful, let me go with a warning. Not a word was said about the firearm in plain view by either him or I, or my license to carry it.
I could list many more pleasant LEO encounters here including talking to the Chiefs of Police of Oak Harbor and Anacortes and the Skagit County Sheriff after an Oak Harbor city council meeting and a meeting of the Fidalgo Democrats, both meetings attended with an openly carried firearm. I could also list a few pleasant LEO encounters where I did get a ticket, I don't consider the officer to be unpleasant just because they are doing their job.
I could also list two bad experiences with Oak Harbor Police Department Officers and the former Chief of Police.
So, Mr. Kramer, feel free to pi$$ on my post.
