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terryg wrote:

george wrote:In west Texas, we always considered it polite to walk to the rear of the car.

just sayin'.

But usually we were so lonely, and happy for the chance to talk with someone.

I understand this. In fact, when I was younger, I would always exit the vehicle and go meet the cop at the rear of the car. Until one time, as I was getting out, I was told - very sternly - to 'stay in the vehicle'.

The LEO asking you to join them outside the vehicle seems perfectly legit to me. Expecting you to disarm (and thereby handle your gun) before exiting seems like a recipe for disaster. What would he/she do if they happened to see the gun in the process?

This. I shudder at putting my gun on the floorboard and that is about the only place that I could think of that would be safe to put it if I had to disarm (and fairly quickly) before getting out of a car. I don't like the prospects of an LEO watching me reach into my IWB, which would probably cause me to lean to my left and then lean forward to put the gun on the floor. That has got to look suspicious. I'd prefer to take my chances with him being mad at me for leaving it in the holster.