sudden valley gunner
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'Are you undercover', a man says as he approaches me at Best Buy.
'NO, just a regular guy' I say.
'Really? and you can carry like that, do you have a permit'
'Not necessary, we are an open carry state'
'Well I am a police officer' my awareness instantly notched u in the split second between the next words ( you would understand why if you knew the history I have with Bellingham PD, 'from Canada'. Ahhh relief.
We ended up in a great discussion, this guy's look of incredulous disbelief is hard to describe. He was amazed that we can do this. He asked why I would need to. I told him for self defense and more of a means of detterant is why I carry openly. I also told him another reason I do so is to raise awareness that in the States this is our right. He was very understanding.
I told him about Tyler and I being at Starbucks and the police were called he states
"I bet you were taken down at gun point", I said no not at all. They saw we were engaged in no crime and left. He again was amazed. We chatted for a little bit he wondered what caliber (calibre if you are Canadian) I was carrying, he knew the model.
A few minutes later my wife came in to meet me and the conversation ended very positively. But since my wife wanted to browse a little I went to the car, got some of the brochures and brought them back in for him to have. He thanked me, and we talked about the relaxation of Canada's long gun registration (he is supportive of relaxing this). I told him I was thinking of asking the mods to make a Canada section since we have a U.K. section that way we can all work for more gun rights.
He seemed to like the brochures and I feel it was a positive encounter overall.
'Are you undercover', a man says as he approaches me at Best Buy.
'NO, just a regular guy' I say.
'Really? and you can carry like that, do you have a permit'
'Not necessary, we are an open carry state'
'Well I am a police officer' my awareness instantly notched u in the split second between the next words ( you would understand why if you knew the history I have with Bellingham PD, 'from Canada'. Ahhh relief.
We ended up in a great discussion, this guy's look of incredulous disbelief is hard to describe. He was amazed that we can do this. He asked why I would need to. I told him for self defense and more of a means of detterant is why I carry openly. I also told him another reason I do so is to raise awareness that in the States this is our right. He was very understanding.
I told him about Tyler and I being at Starbucks and the police were called he states
"I bet you were taken down at gun point", I said no not at all. They saw we were engaged in no crime and left. He again was amazed. We chatted for a little bit he wondered what caliber (calibre if you are Canadian) I was carrying, he knew the model.
A few minutes later my wife came in to meet me and the conversation ended very positively. But since my wife wanted to browse a little I went to the car, got some of the brochures and brought them back in for him to have. He thanked me, and we talked about the relaxation of Canada's long gun registration (he is supportive of relaxing this). I told him I was thinking of asking the mods to make a Canada section since we have a U.K. section that way we can all work for more gun rights.
He seemed to like the brochures and I feel it was a positive encounter overall.