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I'm a newby. I have had my Georgia permit less than 6 months. I have never open carried, but that doesn't mean I don't want to!
I CC - nearly everywhere. I have been "spotted" twice. Once in a grocery, a lady grabbed my arm as I rounded a corner and said, "Why don't you search HIM, why are you accusing me of stealing? Why don't you accuse HIM of stealing." Her motion to grab my arm pulled my untucked, and unbuttoned shirt over the top of my Glock 17 in my favorite tan holster (that I talk about below). She and the store clerk looked at my gun and I calmly recovered myself and said, "No thanks, not today."
That was that.
In same grocery store, late at night close to closing, I was dressed in a similar way and as I picked up my groceries the policewoman working security in the store spotted my fine leather holstered Glock. She didn't flinch, didn't say a word.
That was that.
In a gun shop recently, I was making a holster purchase. Trying to decide whether to go with or without the retention strap. As I was debating, out loud, I said, "But having the retention strap is probably a good idea if I decide to open carry."
Upon hearing this, the salesperson said, "Are you a police officer?"
I said no and he proceeded to say that he would never open carry in Georgia. He said he open carries in the store because he has the permission of the owner. But, he went on to say, if I am not a police officer and I open carry I run the risk of being "cuffed and tossed" immediately by police officers who may, in his words, "not be that familiar with the law."
This is why I have resisted the temptation to open carry.
Anyone have an encounter with a police officer while OC?
How did it go?
Was it a "that was that" encounter? Or do you have sidewalk burns and cuff marks for your stand on the 2nd Amendment?
I'm a newby. I have had my Georgia permit less than 6 months. I have never open carried, but that doesn't mean I don't want to!
I CC - nearly everywhere. I have been "spotted" twice. Once in a grocery, a lady grabbed my arm as I rounded a corner and said, "Why don't you search HIM, why are you accusing me of stealing? Why don't you accuse HIM of stealing." Her motion to grab my arm pulled my untucked, and unbuttoned shirt over the top of my Glock 17 in my favorite tan holster (that I talk about below). She and the store clerk looked at my gun and I calmly recovered myself and said, "No thanks, not today."
That was that.
In same grocery store, late at night close to closing, I was dressed in a similar way and as I picked up my groceries the policewoman working security in the store spotted my fine leather holstered Glock. She didn't flinch, didn't say a word.
That was that.
In a gun shop recently, I was making a holster purchase. Trying to decide whether to go with or without the retention strap. As I was debating, out loud, I said, "But having the retention strap is probably a good idea if I decide to open carry."
Upon hearing this, the salesperson said, "Are you a police officer?"
I said no and he proceeded to say that he would never open carry in Georgia. He said he open carries in the store because he has the permission of the owner. But, he went on to say, if I am not a police officer and I open carry I run the risk of being "cuffed and tossed" immediately by police officers who may, in his words, "not be that familiar with the law."
This is why I have resisted the temptation to open carry.
Anyone have an encounter with a police officer while OC?
How did it go?
Was it a "that was that" encounter? Or do you have sidewalk burns and cuff marks for your stand on the 2nd Amendment?