We went to the China Bear restaurant on the north side of Houston (REALLY nice buffet btw, really elegant place inside, ENORMOUS buffet... they had snow crab on the buffet line for crying out loud... but I digress..). We next to a table of about 5 people, 4 guys and a woman. Immediately I notice (far before anyone I was with) that they were all armed, all sigs or glocks that I saw. One of them was just in plain clothes, but I suspected he was probably carrying concealed given the company he was with ;) Anyways, one of them though, was by all definitions of the phrase, armed to the teeth. Most of them had badges in pouches hanging from their necks. This guy had no visible badge, was just wearing a black polo shirt and black cargo-style pants. His armaments? Good lord, had some model Sig on small of back for his right hand, had some other model Sig at 3 o'clock OWB, and had TWO of the following on his left leg, one above the other. His left leg had two or three mag carriers(I don't recall) strapped to it that were held on by a strap that went around his leg and also connected to a harness that was either a part of his belt, or just attached to it. Then another of that same thing, two or three mags, in the same style harness that attached to the one above it. He had a BIG knife mounted down near his ankle, right about the top of his bootline. Had what was either a pepper spray or possibly a flashbang-type of thing (I've never seen one of those, or a smoke grenade, etc, in person, so I can't say) mounted on his left front, about 10:30 position. That was fully enclosed though in a carrier so I'm assuming probably pepper spray.
As you can tell from the description, I studied this guy up and down. Having just come from a water park, and still wearing my swimsuit, I wasn't carrying. I didn't feel unsafe though, more worried that I couldn't control myself from going over and asking him "what are you???"
I'd never seen anyone that heavily armed in public before. Maybe he was SWAT or similar? Out to lunch with a bunch of what appeared to be detectives. I dunno, but I found it amusing that only after about 15 minutes did anyone in my party say anything about everyone on the table next to us having guns.
