Walt_Kowalski
Regular Member
All,
Over the weekend a buddy of mine (not on the boards... yet) and I decided to see another movie at Cobb Village 12 Cinemas, in Leesburg VA. He and I have OC'ed there to see several movies in the last few weeks, and no one working there has remarked on my OC. On each occasion I've noticed that there is a Leesburg PD officer there, possibly moonlighting. On this occasion my buddy and I passed him strong sides on our way to get coffee. He immediately noticed our OC, and I acknowledged him with a friendly nod. As we waited in the concessions line to order some coffee, I observed the officer pointing us out to, what I would assume to be, a member of management. After a few moments of the manager and the officer looking our way and speaking to each other (kind of uncomfortable), my buddy and I paid for and took our coffee to a table and sat down. We were now around the corner from the officer and he no longer had direct line of sight with us.
** I have no recording. this is all to my best recollection **
After about a minute, the officer approaches us and asks us what we are carrying. I'm thinking.. OK.. cool. this officer is just being friendly... and after a few minutes of just talking about firearms and handguns in general he the asks us for ID. This is where is went down hill for me. I initially refused, and I pointed out to him that in VA, "I only need to provide my name and city of residence". He then replied "I need to know that you are not a felon." to which I replied "Do you think a felon is going to Openly carry a firearm?" he stated / insisted that he must see our ID's, and that he was just trying to do his job. *not blaming my buddy here, but he is new to OC, and produced his ID* Once my buddy produced his ID, I then gave him mine, while saying "I know I don't have to do this, and something to the matter of 'I thought Leesburg PD was trained on OC'. " after he called in our info, and everything came back OK (DUH!!!!) We spoke for a few more minutes about laws in other states ( The officer was originally from NY and that explains A LOT). The Officer even jokingly said that one of the reasons this theater was great was that you can drink there, but that we could not since we were carrying. I corrected him by informing him that if you are OC, that you can drink, it's only CC, that you can not. At this time I realized that we only had a few minutes to get to our seats, and handed the officer one of Ed's OC cards.
All in all not a horrible experience. I'll def. look into getting a voice recorder. I did learn one good thing. If the management of the Cobb theater had and issue or policy against carrying of firearms, we would have been asked to leave. If you live in Ashburn, Leesburg, or Sterling area of VA this is the ONLY theater that I know of that does not have a policy against OC or CC. Lets give them plenty of business!
Over the weekend a buddy of mine (not on the boards... yet) and I decided to see another movie at Cobb Village 12 Cinemas, in Leesburg VA. He and I have OC'ed there to see several movies in the last few weeks, and no one working there has remarked on my OC. On each occasion I've noticed that there is a Leesburg PD officer there, possibly moonlighting. On this occasion my buddy and I passed him strong sides on our way to get coffee. He immediately noticed our OC, and I acknowledged him with a friendly nod. As we waited in the concessions line to order some coffee, I observed the officer pointing us out to, what I would assume to be, a member of management. After a few moments of the manager and the officer looking our way and speaking to each other (kind of uncomfortable), my buddy and I paid for and took our coffee to a table and sat down. We were now around the corner from the officer and he no longer had direct line of sight with us.
** I have no recording. this is all to my best recollection **
After about a minute, the officer approaches us and asks us what we are carrying. I'm thinking.. OK.. cool. this officer is just being friendly... and after a few minutes of just talking about firearms and handguns in general he the asks us for ID. This is where is went down hill for me. I initially refused, and I pointed out to him that in VA, "I only need to provide my name and city of residence". He then replied "I need to know that you are not a felon." to which I replied "Do you think a felon is going to Openly carry a firearm?" he stated / insisted that he must see our ID's, and that he was just trying to do his job. *not blaming my buddy here, but he is new to OC, and produced his ID* Once my buddy produced his ID, I then gave him mine, while saying "I know I don't have to do this, and something to the matter of 'I thought Leesburg PD was trained on OC'. " after he called in our info, and everything came back OK (DUH!!!!) We spoke for a few more minutes about laws in other states ( The officer was originally from NY and that explains A LOT). The Officer even jokingly said that one of the reasons this theater was great was that you can drink there, but that we could not since we were carrying. I corrected him by informing him that if you are OC, that you can drink, it's only CC, that you can not. At this time I realized that we only had a few minutes to get to our seats, and handed the officer one of Ed's OC cards.
All in all not a horrible experience. I'll def. look into getting a voice recorder. I did learn one good thing. If the management of the Cobb theater had and issue or policy against carrying of firearms, we would have been asked to leave. If you live in Ashburn, Leesburg, or Sterling area of VA this is the ONLY theater that I know of that does not have a policy against OC or CC. Lets give them plenty of business!