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I got a call from a friend yesterday afternoon and he wanted to go out and celebrate his promotion that just came through. He had it in mind to hit the Rock Bottom Brewery in downtown Portland for their 'pint night': $5 first pint, $2 pints after that, and you keep the glass! (killer food and good beer by the way!)
We both live in Vancouver, and he's quite familiar with me OC activities over here, but he wasn't expecting to see the 1911 on my hip when I exited his car downtown.
I'm not going to say he 'freaked' but he did express some concern over the laws on the south side of the river (Oregon). as we were standing in front of the parking sticker vending machine, I explained Oregon's state level preemtion on OC, and that governmental subdivisions could only enforce OC restrictions on LOADED firearms..."....and as you can plainly see (as I rotated my hip to display the butt of the grip to him) the gun is decidedly 'sans magazine'!"
At precisely that moment TWO Multnomah County Sherrifs happened to be walking by (behind him) which means given the elevated volume of my speaking (traffic noise) there was no way they could have NOT heard what I said or seen the pistol.:shock:
But as far as I could tell they didn't even blink at my OC. Neither did the OTHER two Multnomah County Sherrifs that were following the first two about ten paces behind.
(nor did the 'meter maid' that came around the corner as we left the area...AFTER he put the parking sticker that I pressured him to buy on the window.)
A couple of staff in the restaurant widened their eyes briefly at my OC, but nobody said anything. All in all a decidedly uneventful evening.
I got a call from a friend yesterday afternoon and he wanted to go out and celebrate his promotion that just came through. He had it in mind to hit the Rock Bottom Brewery in downtown Portland for their 'pint night': $5 first pint, $2 pints after that, and you keep the glass! (killer food and good beer by the way!)
We both live in Vancouver, and he's quite familiar with me OC activities over here, but he wasn't expecting to see the 1911 on my hip when I exited his car downtown.
I'm not going to say he 'freaked' but he did express some concern over the laws on the south side of the river (Oregon). as we were standing in front of the parking sticker vending machine, I explained Oregon's state level preemtion on OC, and that governmental subdivisions could only enforce OC restrictions on LOADED firearms..."....and as you can plainly see (as I rotated my hip to display the butt of the grip to him) the gun is decidedly 'sans magazine'!"
At precisely that moment TWO Multnomah County Sherrifs happened to be walking by (behind him) which means given the elevated volume of my speaking (traffic noise) there was no way they could have NOT heard what I said or seen the pistol.:shock:
But as far as I could tell they didn't even blink at my OC. Neither did the OTHER two Multnomah County Sherrifs that were following the first two about ten paces behind.
(nor did the 'meter maid' that came around the corner as we left the area...AFTER he put the parking sticker that I pressured him to buy on the window.)
A couple of staff in the restaurant widened their eyes briefly at my OC, but nobody said anything. All in all a decidedly uneventful evening.