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I was shopping with my two girls at the Stop and Shop in Waterbury (the one by Target). I was CCing.
The officer approached me to ask about my Jeep (he has the same model). We talked for a while about the vehicles, etc. I decided to ask him about OC.
He immediately said, no, your not allowed to do that. I informed him (nicely) that state law does not disallow it, and that there is a growing number of folks who OC, and mentioned this website. We talked through some scenarios, and his basic take was that they would not arrest someone who was OCing with a permit, they would just ask them to cover it up. Through the discussion, he seemed genuinely interested in the topic, like he had never really had to work through this before. He informed me that in 9 years, he had never seen someone OCing (besides one random event involving a Fire Marshall).
He promised me that he would go back and research it, which I thought was a good step.
One more interesting fact from the conversation. He informed me that in the last 9 years, Waterbury has had around 80 homicides. Of those, 1 was done by someone with a valid carry permit, and that was a crime of passion.
Good chat.
I was shopping with my two girls at the Stop and Shop in Waterbury (the one by Target). I was CCing.
The officer approached me to ask about my Jeep (he has the same model). We talked for a while about the vehicles, etc. I decided to ask him about OC.
He immediately said, no, your not allowed to do that. I informed him (nicely) that state law does not disallow it, and that there is a growing number of folks who OC, and mentioned this website. We talked through some scenarios, and his basic take was that they would not arrest someone who was OCing with a permit, they would just ask them to cover it up. Through the discussion, he seemed genuinely interested in the topic, like he had never really had to work through this before. He informed me that in 9 years, he had never seen someone OCing (besides one random event involving a Fire Marshall).
He promised me that he would go back and research it, which I thought was a good step.
One more interesting fact from the conversation. He informed me that in the last 9 years, Waterbury has had around 80 homicides. Of those, 1 was done by someone with a valid carry permit, and that was a crime of passion.
Good chat.