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PappaGun wrote: About 3 days later it showed up in an envelope in my mailbox

I have no idea who sent it. No return address.

I'll bet that nice officer went back and searched for it before you did and found it for you.

Well, it's a theory anyway.

chasfm11 wrote:

pcgizzmo wrote:I don't know this for a fact but I've read and gathered from others interactions w/GPD that some may be CHL averse. Not saying one way or another and I'm certainly not saying this officer intentionally took your license but it's just food for thought.

I've wondered about this myself. On my agenda is a stop at GPD to talk about the 30.06 signs at Grapevine Mills. I've lived around Grapevine for 22 years but have only had one occasion to deal with them (parking ticket). Our daughter is a police dispatcher for a neighboring town and even she hasn't had much to say about the tone at GPD in general and, of course, she would have no perspective on their CHL bias or lack of it.

I suspect that this was just an innocent matter. I've always been careful to separate things that I give to people just for this reason. Handing someone a stack of items is different than handing them 3 items separately. I think of it as giving someone change after a purchase. The cashier normally "sounds off" with each item transferred to demonstrate that they got to the correct answer.

The stance of Grapevine PD is that depending on the officer, if caught carrying at Grapevine Mills they will either ask you to leave or arrest you. This is direct from the Grapevine PD to me. I filed an Open Records request for information concerning a department policy to that affect and they stated there was none. In communication with the Chief, I tried to get them to answer the question if they had a non-written policy for arresting a CHL holder at Grapevine Mills and that they felt the signs were valid, and that if a CHL holder was arrested for carrying wouldn't it be 42 U.S.C. 1983 Rights Violation. He refused to make a commitment and said the response to my Open Records Request that there was not a written policy was my answer.

So, bottom line, it will be up to the officer that discovers you carrying there, and if they arrest you vs. just telling you to leave, then you would have to fight it.

As to the OP, I would sure follow up with them and nicely ask about the possibility of the officer dropping it in the car and it is between the seat and the console or under the seat on the floorboard.