shortcircut65
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I was in Home Depot today buying a small propne torch and some cutoff wheels. standing in the isle, i was BSing with a co-worker who is layed off with me as well. guess who comes up beside me? an off-duty state police officer, asking me if i was a cop, because of my pistol that i just so happened to be carrying openly. i could tell he was SP just by the way he looked and acted. i told him i was not, just a citizen exercising my right to open carry. boy did he get pissed! he ranted and raved about how my permit was for conceal only, and i could very easily be arrested, and on and on. i told him that i had paperwork in my truck about how i can legaly open carry, and he said go get it. paperwork in hand, i proceed to tell him that CT is an open carry state, and i showed him where it said this, direct from the CT website. he didnt even look at it. then he said that if someone got alarmed with seeing my pistol, in my holster by the way, they could call, and i would be arrested for breach of peace. i then showed him paperwork from the ccdl website that said that if open carrying, and it is in the holster, it is not considered breach of peace. again, he didnt look at that. just continued to rant and rave. i told him im not going to get into a pissing contest in the middle of HD, so i untucked my shirt and we went on our ways.
as a side note, i just happened to notice that his eyes were all bloodshot for some reason, and he did mention that he was a state trooper. unfortunatly, i thought i should have asked for his name after i left. yet another uniformed LEO, swarn to protect us. from what? our rights?
Ken
I was in Home Depot today buying a small propne torch and some cutoff wheels. standing in the isle, i was BSing with a co-worker who is layed off with me as well. guess who comes up beside me? an off-duty state police officer, asking me if i was a cop, because of my pistol that i just so happened to be carrying openly. i could tell he was SP just by the way he looked and acted. i told him i was not, just a citizen exercising my right to open carry. boy did he get pissed! he ranted and raved about how my permit was for conceal only, and i could very easily be arrested, and on and on. i told him that i had paperwork in my truck about how i can legaly open carry, and he said go get it. paperwork in hand, i proceed to tell him that CT is an open carry state, and i showed him where it said this, direct from the CT website. he didnt even look at it. then he said that if someone got alarmed with seeing my pistol, in my holster by the way, they could call, and i would be arrested for breach of peace. i then showed him paperwork from the ccdl website that said that if open carrying, and it is in the holster, it is not considered breach of peace. again, he didnt look at that. just continued to rant and rave. i told him im not going to get into a pissing contest in the middle of HD, so i untucked my shirt and we went on our ways.
as a side note, i just happened to notice that his eyes were all bloodshot for some reason, and he did mention that he was a state trooper. unfortunatly, i thought i should have asked for his name after i left. yet another uniformed LEO, swarn to protect us. from what? our rights?
Ken