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dac1842 wrote:AS A FORMER LEO I ALWAYS BELIEVED IN GUN CONTROL, THAT BEING I AM IN CONTROL OF ALL GUNS PRESENT. I HAVE A CHL, I WOULD NOT BE OFFENDED IF AN OFFICER DISARMED ME, I WOULD BE DISAPPOINTED IF HE DIDN'T. HIS SAFETY COMES FIRST AND FOREMOST, I AM THE LEAST LIKELY PERSON ON THE PLANET TO BE A THREAT TO AN LEO, BUT HE DOES NOT KNOW THAT. HE HAS TO TAKE MEASURES TO ENSURE THAT HE GOES HOME TO HIS FAMILY EACH NIGHT. REMEMBER THIS, BUNDY WAS NOT KNOWN TO BE A THE NATIONS WORST SERIAL KILLER FOR YEARS.

Odin wrote:

Liberty wrote:
When you are required to take a physical agility test, a written examination, a preliminary interview with an investigator, fill out a personal history packet that is over 50 pages of detailed personal info including all financial info/school history/address history/driving record/etc., have your references, neighbors, spouse and relatives (and others) interviewed by investigators, be subject to a drug screening, be orally interviewed/interrogated by a panel of veteran officers, submit to a medical examination, be polygraphed about everything in your life, endure many hours and literally thousands of questions of psychological evaluation, be interviewed by a psychologist, and pass an interview with the chief of police...all so that you can then take 775 classroom hours of instruction in a police academy and then take and pass the state TCLEOSE examination...all before being issued a license to carry a handgun.

When you have done all of that then you can say that your background was the same as the background for a LEO. The entire process for a LEO from the time they apply to the time they are able to carry a weapon will typically take about a year. It's not quite the same as a CHL background check.

KBCraig wrote: I absolutely agree: the less handling, the safer. Especially for officer who have never been trained on anything other than their department-issued Glock -- I really don't like the idea of them clearing a Condition One 1911.

CHL/LEO wrote:

Then it would no longer be in your possession, custody, or control, or not a potential threat to the officer.

Not true- courts have ruled that if it was within reach while you were in the vehicle, then it still can be searched. The reason being is that once the LEOs allow you back into the car then you would have access to the weapon and could thus engage the officer.