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I went into Race Brothers about 3 weeks ago to pick up a new tire for my ZTR. I was waiting at the counter for someone to assist when I noticed a police officer had come up and was waiting also to buy something.
I am a lefty and my right side was to him, so he was unable to see my firearm clearly, but as we were waiting, someone needed to push a cart by me, so I moved out of the way and "exposed" my left side to the view of the officer.
I watched him out of the corner of my eye as I noticed him looking at me. I saw him step back, and circle back around me (which made me a bit uncomfortable) but I could see his reflection in a piece of glass behind the counter. I noticed that he was checking my firearm out for a bit, but then he moved back to his spot in line and never said a word to me. I was kind of expecting to see him outside waiting for me, but when I exited the store, it was all clear and I went on my merry way.
I OC everywhere I go (except to church where I conceal as the minister has asked me to) and hardly ever get so much as a look.
There was one incident that at first I thought I was going to have a big issue, but it turned out pretty positively.
Last week my two young sons and I went to McDonalds as my wife was out of town and so I was responsible to feed them. Of course I was OCing and was sitting at a booth with my right side out (no visible firearm to the outside) and a lady came up to me and asked me if I was a police officer. My first thought was, uh oh, here we go. I replied that I was not and before I got the chance to ask her why the question, she said, I just saw that you had a gun and was wanting to ask you about it.
Turns out she was from Ohio (my old stomping grounds) and had just received her CCW and was curious as to why I was carrying openly and if I had a special permit for that etc. During that conversation I received several interesting looks as I explained to her that I always carried, mostly openly and was very pleased to hear that she had received her CCW.
She said, for sometime she was against guns, but with all of the stuff that was going on, she had determined that it was just a tool like anything else, and if someone could use it for bad, she could use it for good.