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Not only may you come in contact with a local or state LE, but you might run into federal LE when carrying.

While running down the coast about 7 miles out and after a long chain of events (which I won't go into here), I had to call the Coast Guard to come tow me in to Port O'Conner. On reaching port they performed a "courtesy inspection", something they do whenever someone comes in contact with them for any reason. Of course the first question asked was "do you have any weapons on board?" I replied sure and I also have a CHL. The coastie asked me where the weapon was and asked my buddy and I to wait topside while he went below to retreive it. After finishing the the "inspection" he told me that the weapon was on the bed and the rounds were in the kitchen sink.

The whole incident was professional and my hats off to the Coast Guard for saving my butt that day. Oh yeah, I also passed the inspection.