handog wrote:boomerang wrote:I have been carrying for years with no problems. In many of the stories I read, something doesn't add up. Maybe the poster is withholding some details for personal reasons. That's their right but it does raise questions.
Are there bad cops? Yes. But I don't think me carrying legally materially increases my risk from those rotten apples. YMMV
I think anytime some 3rd party calls the cops about a "man with a gun", they are going to respond seriously and you will have to talk to them. I think that is the 'common thread' here.
A while back, one of the writers for the TSRA magazine wrote a story about how he was parked at a Sonic starting to eat when officers came up and started questioning him about a rifle. It seems he had been shooting a black powder muzzleloader earlier and had it sitting in the front seat. The barrel (and ramrod) was apparently visible from outside and someone nearby called the cops about a man with a gun. I am sure there are more details to that also that I can't remember, but he said it took a little while to get them to realize that a black powder muzzle loader wasn't a legal firearm and he was perfectly legal toting it around in his front seat unsecured.