Wow, Frank, all you are missing is the instructor tag under your screen name and you are all set!
Good question. The answer is no, you don't need it. As soon as the police pull you up in their database they will see that you are a CCW license holder.
Your ability to know with 100% certainty that something is true in every state for every CCW holder is amazing, although incorrect. For example, I used my Washing State ID card to obtain my Washington State CPL. However, I drive on my Wyoming Driver's License. Therefore, cop pulls me over and calls in my Wyoming driver's license number, nothing is returned concerning my CPL status. Several states have no ability to tie CCW status to driver's licenses or name statewide because CCWs are strictly a county matter.
I would recommend that if your license is stolen don't carry your gun concealed until you get a replacement license. Now you fall in the category of not in possession of the license and a photocopy isn't worth the paper it's printed on.
If the cops know about a CCW permit as soon as they look you up in their database, then what is the big concern? So, you recommend giving up a person's ability to defend themselves simply because they don't have the piece of paper required to prove to a police officer at the scene of a traffic stop that they are legal to carry a concealed weapon? Not going to happen. I would rather trust that a judge will dismiss the charges when he finds out I had my wallet stolen the day before I was stopped and I was on my way to take care of everything at the various state and county level government agencies, but that I was authorized to carry a concealed weapon, rather than trust the criminals won't pick that particular day to attack me.
Now about the stuff in the glove box: There are criminals that will break into your car, open glove box, console etc, grab your address and garage door opener and gain entry into your home. How many of you don't lock the door between the garage and house? At least 90% of you are guilty of this. This type of crime does happen.
Trunks of vehicles are just as easy to break into as the glove box is. Probably 99% of vehicles in this country have the registration document located somewhere within the passenger compartment of the vehicle. If you are really that paranoid about it, then don't carry a garage door opener in your vehicle. Use an opener that requires a code on a keypad mounted on the outside door frame of the garage door and spend the extra minute and get the extra exercise to manually open the garage door.
You should never have anything in your vehicle that has your home address on it. Lock that stuff in the trunk or hide in the rear of SUV under carpet etc; be creative. If you get pulled over and the officer asks for your registration and insurance say: "Officer they are in my trunk for security purposes. May I get them for you?"
Congratulations, now you have just given Officer Friendly consent to perform a plain sight search of your trunk or wherever other location the registration is in. So, now, in addition to carrying a firearm on my belt, I am going to tell the officer that I must exit the vehicle in order to obtain the papers I am required to carry in my vehicle? Really?!? "Excuse me, Officer Friendly, but I have to get into my trunk to get my registration out of there....oh, by the way, I am wearing a handgun on my right side in a holster." Ummmm, yeah.
Let's see, if my registration is locked in my glove box, the criminals have to get past two locks to get to it. In the trunk, they only have to get by one lock.
Thanks,
Frank
Personal Protection and Firearms Instructor
Thank you, Frank..... I think I will go somewhere else if I feel the need for further personal protection and firearms instruction.
