There's a decent discussion going on over at http://ambulancedriverfiles.com/2011/12/11/question-for-the-medics-cops-and-er-nurses/ . This is NOT an invitation to go over there and get involved in their internal discussion. It is a suggestion to go see how they view handguns and the folks who carry them (Yeah, most of them do think that the only way to carry is CC, but then that's just the way they are. Let it go.)
If you want to discuss anything, bring it back here where we can kick it around. Let those folks reach their own conclusions without the peanut gallery chiming in.
For the record, I was in a MVA a few years ago where both hands got banged up to the point I could not use them to hold anything for a few days. At the time of the MVA I was enroute to a shooting vacation in another state and had several loaded firearms in the vehicle. I had to wait to be taken to the ER until the local cop showed up so they could secure my OC'd handgun and the ones in the vehicle. At first the EMTs were PO'd at my demanding to wait till the cop arrived, but once I explained te presence of the firearms they calmed down. I got a receipt, and later that day after I was released from the ER I met with the cop and recovered all my firearms, which were unloaded with the ammo from each placed in the separate evidence bag the cop used to store each one (it's what he had - and it worked).
On another, unrelated, trip to the ER I asked the ER nurse what the hospital - with a no-firearms policy - wanted to do about the handgun on my side that the ambulance had not dealt with. Hospital security was called, it was removed while in the holster, and I got a receipt along with a key for the lockable bag it was put in. I got it back still in the holster and still loaded. I strapped it on and walked out of the hospital - nobody said anything about waiting till I got off the property to touch it or anything like that.
YMMV.
If folks post thoughts and experiences here without getting out of hand I will direct Kelly to look over here at what you all have to say.
stay safe.
If you want to discuss anything, bring it back here where we can kick it around. Let those folks reach their own conclusions without the peanut gallery chiming in.
For the record, I was in a MVA a few years ago where both hands got banged up to the point I could not use them to hold anything for a few days. At the time of the MVA I was enroute to a shooting vacation in another state and had several loaded firearms in the vehicle. I had to wait to be taken to the ER until the local cop showed up so they could secure my OC'd handgun and the ones in the vehicle. At first the EMTs were PO'd at my demanding to wait till the cop arrived, but once I explained te presence of the firearms they calmed down. I got a receipt, and later that day after I was released from the ER I met with the cop and recovered all my firearms, which were unloaded with the ammo from each placed in the separate evidence bag the cop used to store each one (it's what he had - and it worked).
On another, unrelated, trip to the ER I asked the ER nurse what the hospital - with a no-firearms policy - wanted to do about the handgun on my side that the ambulance had not dealt with. Hospital security was called, it was removed while in the holster, and I got a receipt along with a key for the lockable bag it was put in. I got it back still in the holster and still loaded. I strapped it on and walked out of the hospital - nobody said anything about waiting till I got off the property to touch it or anything like that.
YMMV.
If folks post thoughts and experiences here without getting out of hand I will direct Kelly to look over here at what you all have to say.
stay safe.