AlexMayhem
Regular Member
I was picking up groceries last night when in line at the register an employee of the store (presumably some sort of manager) approached me.
Mgr: Are you allowed to have that in here?
Me: Yes sir.
Mgr: Are you an off-duty cop or something (I love that question as cops don't wear beards or long hair like I do)?
Me:My profession does not matter, I have a right to carry. (I thought about educating him that the store has the right not to let me OC - that thought mysteriously disappeared . . .).
Mgr: Okay, well I'll find out about that.
I got rang up for my food, paid and in the parking lot as I pushed my cart back to the return rack and headed to my car to leave I saw 3 Kennewick Police cruisers approach I got to make new friends!
It's been a long time since this happened, but the officers did not ask for ID, they did not want to take my weapon and did not give me the "You should Concealed Carry" speach. I had not been approached by these officers before, but they knew who I was and my reputation with the department is that I am co-operative so I feel that is a big part of why they were chill with me. I had been watching a lot of youtube videos of OCers being detained lately, and I think they have jaded me some - when I first saw the police cruisers I had intended on being somewhat of an as . . . jerk, refusing my name, requesting to leave if I was not being detained et cetera. However, the polite manner they approached me prompted me to act in kind. I think it will speak volumes in this community if us OCers develop a relationship of trust with the LEO, show them that we aren't part of some anti-gov't seperatist movement, rather that we are a well-educated and mannered minority of Americans whom practice basic (yet fundamental) Americanism. Every encounter in the future I intend on giving LEO less and less, in that they will not get me to disclose my name, I will not share why I carry, I will ask to be on my way.
The best part about this encounter was my local OC brothers educated me a good deal during our picnic last month so I bought a voice recorder. I had it on the whole time and nobody was wise to it. I'll try and attach the audio file when I figure out how to do that on here.
My thanks and respect to all of you who have been involved in OC longer than I, who have had the patience to educate the young bucks like me. It's an honor to fight this good (albeit silly in that we shouldn't need to fight for it) fight for our freedoms.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
X-
Kozak
PS- help with attaching an audio file to this thread would be nice. I'm a young fella, but I don't interweb much.
Mgr: Are you allowed to have that in here?
Me: Yes sir.
Mgr: Are you an off-duty cop or something (I love that question as cops don't wear beards or long hair like I do)?
Me:My profession does not matter, I have a right to carry. (I thought about educating him that the store has the right not to let me OC - that thought mysteriously disappeared . . .).
Mgr: Okay, well I'll find out about that.
I got rang up for my food, paid and in the parking lot as I pushed my cart back to the return rack and headed to my car to leave I saw 3 Kennewick Police cruisers approach I got to make new friends!
It's been a long time since this happened, but the officers did not ask for ID, they did not want to take my weapon and did not give me the "You should Concealed Carry" speach. I had not been approached by these officers before, but they knew who I was and my reputation with the department is that I am co-operative so I feel that is a big part of why they were chill with me. I had been watching a lot of youtube videos of OCers being detained lately, and I think they have jaded me some - when I first saw the police cruisers I had intended on being somewhat of an as . . . jerk, refusing my name, requesting to leave if I was not being detained et cetera. However, the polite manner they approached me prompted me to act in kind. I think it will speak volumes in this community if us OCers develop a relationship of trust with the LEO, show them that we aren't part of some anti-gov't seperatist movement, rather that we are a well-educated and mannered minority of Americans whom practice basic (yet fundamental) Americanism. Every encounter in the future I intend on giving LEO less and less, in that they will not get me to disclose my name, I will not share why I carry, I will ask to be on my way.
The best part about this encounter was my local OC brothers educated me a good deal during our picnic last month so I bought a voice recorder. I had it on the whole time and nobody was wise to it. I'll try and attach the audio file when I figure out how to do that on here.
My thanks and respect to all of you who have been involved in OC longer than I, who have had the patience to educate the young bucks like me. It's an honor to fight this good (albeit silly in that we shouldn't need to fight for it) fight for our freedoms.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
X-
Kozak
PS- help with attaching an audio file to this thread would be nice. I'm a young fella, but I don't interweb much.