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jbirds1210 wrote:I enjoy rolling my eyes at people when they hand me a CHL and tell me they are not carrying a gun.

I've gotten the eye roll a couple of times. I always interpreted it as "Why are you showing me your CHL if you're not carrying?" But from the tone of your post it sounds like it may mean, "Why are you not carrying if you have a CHL?"

I can sort of understand him not wanting to have to worry about someone else's weapon. (Doesn't mean I agree with it, but I understand the reasoning.)
On your property, I think it was wrong of him to ask you to disarm. However, since you are asking for help from the police, it's probably not a time to get into a debate with him that just distracts from the task at hand. Choose your battles. He's there to help.

When I go to a range, where there are a number of people I don't know, I feel very safe surrounded by all of my fellow armed Americans.
BUT, I'm very aware of who is doing what. I'm watching muzzle discipine. I'm checking the target of the guy doing rapid fire to determine whether or not he has any idea what he's doing. And I grew up around guns and am very comfortable around them. Some police officers are not as comfortable around guns. If he's not, he may feel that having an armed civilian nearby while he's trying to do his job is just too much of a distraction. I'd love to take him shooting/hunting, put him more at ease, show him that we can both be very safe in the presence of firearms. But right then is not the time.

Maybe he was afraid you'd open fire on some random suspicious looking neighborhood kid while he was standing there.