Bamafirefighter22
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Well today was a really bad day for open carry and myself.
I was pulled over buy a HCSO Sgt, which I know, bc I have been having problems getting a tag for my car. All was fine until a local cop, whom I have known for even longer, pulled up and after a few minutes asked me if I would step out of the car. I unholstered my Glock, he didnt even see me do it, and placed it in my seat before I went to talk to them. I still had my holster on my side and the local cop jumped my s#$t and asked me why I was "carrying my gun on my hip like I was Wyatt Earp?" I told him in a calm voice "the Alabama constitution afforded me the right to do so." He became extremely irritated and upset and proceeded to tell me that "I was wrong" and" that really pissed him off how I had just smarted off to him!"
I said, "I'm sorry but I didn't mean to sound like I was smarting off to you just responding to your question." Well that wasn't enough, after a short dialect about how I had checked every resource I could find on the issue and they all came back to verify what I was doing was legal, he told me that "if I ever smarted off to him again like that, that he would take off his badge a gun and put it in his truck and whoop my ass right here and put my face in the asphalt!!!” That "I had no right to be open carrying and that if he saw me in town like that he would draw down on me bc he was making sure he was going home!!" "you don’t see me or the Sgt with our gun on our hips when we are off duty do you.... DO YOU!?!?" "You are putting yourself in a bad situation by doing so" He actually told me twice that he would "kick my a#s" and kept degrading me and telling me that in all the years he has known me he has given me too many warnings and he was done with it!!"
He also told me that I shouldn't be open carrying bc "i'm just a firefighter and not a cop and that if somebody put a gun in my face right now I would freeze and not know what to do!"
Also something to the affect of "If I didn't know you I would begin to put your face on the asphalt because your not gona jump out of no car with that right there." I only had my holster and no gun at all.
I am going to leave it at that and not add what I was thinking as replies or what I now think of him bc I'm sure that everyone will probably feel the same. Oh yeah and rule 6... no LEO bashing....... WHATEVER!!!!! I am sick of following the rules of the "system" and then getting harassed while thugs ride around our neighborhood dealing drugs and speeding down the streets our kids live on while they try to in-force there opinion's and not the LAW!
Please remember I am a firefighter with no arrest records and have always been friends with the cops and never, unlike he quotes in the linked audio, gotten into any trouble with them. He must have been thinking of my younger brother.
Audio to the conversation about half way through when my girlfriend started to record: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd6vic68-uY
Thanks for your support,
James
P.S. If I have mis-quoted or gone off the deep end with any of my grammar I am just a little upset right now.
Well today was a really bad day for open carry and myself.
I was pulled over buy a HCSO Sgt, which I know, bc I have been having problems getting a tag for my car. All was fine until a local cop, whom I have known for even longer, pulled up and after a few minutes asked me if I would step out of the car. I unholstered my Glock, he didnt even see me do it, and placed it in my seat before I went to talk to them. I still had my holster on my side and the local cop jumped my s#$t and asked me why I was "carrying my gun on my hip like I was Wyatt Earp?" I told him in a calm voice "the Alabama constitution afforded me the right to do so." He became extremely irritated and upset and proceeded to tell me that "I was wrong" and" that really pissed him off how I had just smarted off to him!"
I said, "I'm sorry but I didn't mean to sound like I was smarting off to you just responding to your question." Well that wasn't enough, after a short dialect about how I had checked every resource I could find on the issue and they all came back to verify what I was doing was legal, he told me that "if I ever smarted off to him again like that, that he would take off his badge a gun and put it in his truck and whoop my ass right here and put my face in the asphalt!!!” That "I had no right to be open carrying and that if he saw me in town like that he would draw down on me bc he was making sure he was going home!!" "you don’t see me or the Sgt with our gun on our hips when we are off duty do you.... DO YOU!?!?" "You are putting yourself in a bad situation by doing so" He actually told me twice that he would "kick my a#s" and kept degrading me and telling me that in all the years he has known me he has given me too many warnings and he was done with it!!"
He also told me that I shouldn't be open carrying bc "i'm just a firefighter and not a cop and that if somebody put a gun in my face right now I would freeze and not know what to do!"
Also something to the affect of "If I didn't know you I would begin to put your face on the asphalt because your not gona jump out of no car with that right there." I only had my holster and no gun at all.
I am going to leave it at that and not add what I was thinking as replies or what I now think of him bc I'm sure that everyone will probably feel the same. Oh yeah and rule 6... no LEO bashing....... WHATEVER!!!!! I am sick of following the rules of the "system" and then getting harassed while thugs ride around our neighborhood dealing drugs and speeding down the streets our kids live on while they try to in-force there opinion's and not the LAW!
Please remember I am a firefighter with no arrest records and have always been friends with the cops and never, unlike he quotes in the linked audio, gotten into any trouble with them. He must have been thinking of my younger brother.
Audio to the conversation about half way through when my girlfriend started to record: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd6vic68-uY
Thanks for your support,
James
P.S. If I have mis-quoted or gone off the deep end with any of my grammar I am just a little upset right now.