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I was working in New Haven yesterday, and there was a police officer directing traffic at a phone company work site, so I decided to ask him what he would do if he saw someone openly carrying a handgun, in a holster, with a carry permit. I told him to assume that the person was minding his own business, just walking down the street. answer: "I'd arrest him for breach of the peace, and take his permit, and send it to the DPS. Inconvenience, annoyance, and alarm." I told him the reason i was asking was because I had read on the .gov website about the OLR saying that openly carrying was legal with a permit. He interrupted me, and said it was a "concealed carry permit." I told him that they had said it wasn't. He looked a little bit confused. Then he seemed to second guess himself about confiscating the permit, and brought up the point that being accused of a crime was different than being convicted of it, and told me a story about how he knew a guy who had a disorderly conduct charge nolle'd and he had to wait 13 months to get his permit back. Then he said his attitude was to "arrest them, and let the court sort it out."
/slap forehead
I thanked him for his thoughts, and told him it was time to get back to work, since they didn't pay me to stand around chit chatting.