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hey dude,
I just read the story of your encounter at the mall. First let me say, congrats for not getting arrested or shot!
2nd. when they banned you from the mall, what was their reason? i can understand if you were running through the building shouting obscenities, or was causing a disturbance with your firearm...but you did nothing wrong. So what was their reasoning?
Your story was very detailed, and I'm sure your heart was pounding and you were nervous as hell through the whole thing. I commend you for the way you handled it. I'm not sure I would have been able to stay so calm.
As for monday afternoon quarterbacking - in general you did the right thing, and you knew the law pretty good. One thing to maybe work on (which I will do as well), is when initially confronted by the 1st responding officers, is to state, the gun is unloaded. If they proceed to do anything other than check to see if your firearm is unloaded, state that what they are doing is illegal. Also have the OC Flyer handy, to show them the law.
To tell you the truth, if I was a cop and someone showed me a piece of paper with "laws" written on it, I wouldn't exactly thing it's legit right of the bat either. But at least its a start.
On a little side note. Did you pistol have an unloaded magazine in it? or were you just carrying it completely empty?
On top of that, does anyone know the rules to carrying the gun with an empty magazine? Is it kosher?
Dude, again, you are a pioneer in the step to the right direction, and I commend you. Hopefully I will get the balls to carry openly here in mainstream LA (hollywood, bev hills, glendale, etc)...