denwego
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After a month and a week on the road visiting relatives in both New York and Texas, I was very happy to finally be back in Colorado this afternoon. And to celebrate, I thought I'd slap on the XD-45 and head out to get some coffee and a new front tire for the car that went flat while I was gone. I went to the Home Depot on Arapahoe Ave. without any second glances, as usual, and popped into the 29th Street Mall for Starbucks while I was in the shopping center.
As I walked through the door, I nearly stepped into a table of six Boulder PD officers, sitting around and laughing boisterously. Immediately, it was as if someone started eating a hamburger at a PETA rally... dead silence at the cops' table as all twelve eyes immediately focused on every move I made across the store.
I thought, "Oh man, here comes the lecture..."; the Boulder County Sheriff's Office is very pro-gun and pro-carry, but the more leftist local PD swings wildly from officer to officer about whether they like "citizens" carrying, or even tolerate it when concealed with a permit. The guy behind the counter was a friend from graduate school, so he was happy to see me in town and shouted to the chick in the back room that I was finally back, and I noticed that the demeanor of the cops' table changed when it became clear that the manager didn't want to immediately throw me out. Honestly, I think they might have been debating about approaching the manager as a pretext to give me guff, but there were only three other people in the store and they didn't seem to notice that either I or the cops were on the other side.
So, in the end, I got my coffee, nodded to the table as I passed by them again to go out the door, and walked uneventfully back to my car. Not even a word exchanged... it might be droll to y'all in Virginia, but it's a very good step in the right direction out here in the People's Republic of Boulder!
After a month and a week on the road visiting relatives in both New York and Texas, I was very happy to finally be back in Colorado this afternoon. And to celebrate, I thought I'd slap on the XD-45 and head out to get some coffee and a new front tire for the car that went flat while I was gone. I went to the Home Depot on Arapahoe Ave. without any second glances, as usual, and popped into the 29th Street Mall for Starbucks while I was in the shopping center.
As I walked through the door, I nearly stepped into a table of six Boulder PD officers, sitting around and laughing boisterously. Immediately, it was as if someone started eating a hamburger at a PETA rally... dead silence at the cops' table as all twelve eyes immediately focused on every move I made across the store.
I thought, "Oh man, here comes the lecture..."; the Boulder County Sheriff's Office is very pro-gun and pro-carry, but the more leftist local PD swings wildly from officer to officer about whether they like "citizens" carrying, or even tolerate it when concealed with a permit. The guy behind the counter was a friend from graduate school, so he was happy to see me in town and shouted to the chick in the back room that I was finally back, and I noticed that the demeanor of the cops' table changed when it became clear that the manager didn't want to immediately throw me out. Honestly, I think they might have been debating about approaching the manager as a pretext to give me guff, but there were only three other people in the store and they didn't seem to notice that either I or the cops were on the other side.
So, in the end, I got my coffee, nodded to the table as I passed by them again to go out the door, and walked uneventfully back to my car. Not even a word exchanged... it might be droll to y'all in Virginia, but it's a very good step in the right direction out here in the People's Republic of Boulder!
