I suspect that, even under the unlikely circumstances that this actually resulted in a police interview, given the circumstances of the event and what you were trying to accomplish and why, I find it hard to believe that any cop would actually arrest you for it......especially if you didn’t do it in front of an audience.Soccerdad1995 wrote:Which brings me to another question. Did I technically violate the law when I unholstered my gun that night and placed it in the small portable safe that I brought for the purpose. After all, I did have an unholstered gun in my hand for a minute or so while in a location that was not under my control.
At our thanksgiving dinner, hosted by my son’s inlaws, there were at least two people carrying that I know of for sure (my son and me), and there were likely others. Nobody cares. The lone exception was my wife, who usually purse-carries her G43, and deliberately disarmed before we left our house because she didn’t want to leave her purse laying around the inlaws’ house with a lot of little kids running around, and one convicted felon in the family. And he, by the way, is probably as trust-worthy anyone else there. He is a vet with several Iraq and Afghanistan tours under his belt, who has had debilitating PTSD and struggled with heroine addiction for a while as a result. He is clean and sober now and faithful to the treatment he is under for the PTSD, but during his dark days, he had a felony arrest and conviction for heroine possession, and did time for it. I actually admire the way he is working so hard to get his life back. In any case, leaving a gun laying round with him there would constitute constructive possession - as I understand it - even though the need for police intervention in that case would be pretty slim. The bigger worry was the horde of young primates running around the house without much yet in the way of personal filters on their own behavior.