Yeah, I have never seen anything quite like that. He approached very cautiously, but when he looked in and saw two white guys with military style haircuts he got very friendly. He even chatted with us or a couple of minutes before he took off. My brother made the comment, "if we had been hispanic, I bet we would have been stuck here for a long time".
I am wondering if maybe they were on the lookout for a similar type of truck that may have been involved in some kind of a crime. The Trooper really had no reason to pull us over and when he saw that we were not whoever he was looking for, I'm guessing he just made that comment thinking we were pretty aryan looking and would be okay with it. He was way aryan looking himself. That is just what we speculated on our ride home. The whole thing seemed very unusual so we didn't question anything, we just wanted to get back on the road get the heck back to Texas!
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- Mon Nov 30, 2009 8:19 pm
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Thanks Keith B, that is extremely helpful. I don't know why it did not occur to me to specifically check the laws for each state I was going through, but it makes perfect sense and I will be more properly prepared next time. Given the nature of our trip, the gun was more of a car carry than personal carry and the "what if I get stopped" never occurred to me until it happened. I will educate myself better.
- Mon Nov 30, 2009 2:22 pm
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showing your chl to an officer in another state
Ok guys, here is a question that never occurred to me until this weekend.
My brother and I took a road trip to Kansas City this weekend. On our way back, while passing through Wichita, we go pulled over by a Kansas State Trooper. My brother was driving, and I had my license and my Colt Commander was in a backpack in the back seat. We were doing a 15 hour non-stop drive back to El Paso and I did not want to wear it for comfort reasons, though I would have snagged it if we had left the vehicle.
The Trooper approach us very carefully, but we rolled down the windows and when he looked in and saw us, he got very relaxed. He told us that when he saw our truck, an old Ford Bronco with tinted windows and Texas plates, he thought we might be some illegals so he pulled us over. He took a quick look at my brother's license and my insurance, wished us a nice day, and left.
While this seemed like a completely unconstitutional stop, my question is on displaying my CHL. If I am in Texas, obviously, I give it to the Trooper when I hand him my license. But if I am in Kansas, should I just give the Trooper my driver's license, and not worry about the CHL, because I did not have the weapon on my person? I presume that when he runs my name, nothing about a CHL would come up since it is out of state. Would I just be opening a can of worms by showing the license? I figure that this is a pretty lame stop, and he seemed to be just going through the motions after he saw we were not "illegals". Obviously, he never asked to see my license as I was not the driver, so in this case, it was not an issue. If I had been wearing the gun, I would have just acted liked I was in Texas and show him the license. Should I just show my CHL anytime I am asked for ID by an LEO regardless of what state I am in?
Thanks
My brother and I took a road trip to Kansas City this weekend. On our way back, while passing through Wichita, we go pulled over by a Kansas State Trooper. My brother was driving, and I had my license and my Colt Commander was in a backpack in the back seat. We were doing a 15 hour non-stop drive back to El Paso and I did not want to wear it for comfort reasons, though I would have snagged it if we had left the vehicle.
The Trooper approach us very carefully, but we rolled down the windows and when he looked in and saw us, he got very relaxed. He told us that when he saw our truck, an old Ford Bronco with tinted windows and Texas plates, he thought we might be some illegals so he pulled us over. He took a quick look at my brother's license and my insurance, wished us a nice day, and left.
While this seemed like a completely unconstitutional stop, my question is on displaying my CHL. If I am in Texas, obviously, I give it to the Trooper when I hand him my license. But if I am in Kansas, should I just give the Trooper my driver's license, and not worry about the CHL, because I did not have the weapon on my person? I presume that when he runs my name, nothing about a CHL would come up since it is out of state. Would I just be opening a can of worms by showing the license? I figure that this is a pretty lame stop, and he seemed to be just going through the motions after he saw we were not "illegals". Obviously, he never asked to see my license as I was not the driver, so in this case, it was not an issue. If I had been wearing the gun, I would have just acted liked I was in Texas and show him the license. Should I just show my CHL anytime I am asked for ID by an LEO regardless of what state I am in?
Thanks