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Friendly Encounter:
On the Hi Way shoulder-
My elderly Aunt & Uncle hit a deer on 281 S last night. My aunt is in a wheel chair & very sick. They called me to pick them up. When I arrived they were all OK but the car was totaled. The County Sheriff deputy& DPS Trooper arrived shortly after me. I was armed. They were very friendly. They were going to help me get my aunt into the wheel chair to move her to my truck. Working that close to a DPS & Deputy made me nervous. I would rather them know I was armed that have one of them bump into me or notice my gun. I said before we start I better show you this & handed them my lic with my CHL. I told them I was currently armed & asked them if thay wanted me to put it in the truck. the reply was...... "No problem. Leave it on, your perfectly OK " both LEOs were very humorus to help my 87 year old uncle calm down (who is quit a commedian him self). By the time the process was over we were all rolling in laughster!!!
I know not every encounter will be this smooth but I was treated with dignity & that was cool. Just though I would share this.

You don't need to divulge until they ask for your identification & since you weren't suspected of any crime, they had no need to ask. You were fine not saying anything.

Working in close quarters with LEO, I probably would have said something as well.

Good encounter. Glad your relatives were okay.

When the trooper & I lifted the heavy wheel chair into the back of my truck the handle caught my jacket & lifed it to expose my gun in front of the TX Trooper. sense the trooper knew I had it it was no big deal. If I hadent said anythig I would have been jackked up at gun point!!!! This is why i told them because we were very close lifting things together. I'm not that supid to announce to every LEO. I think I did the right thing in this case!!!
I was offended but I got over it already!!!!

Plus I showed him my CHL Badge!!!!!

Not to mention you headed off the cavity search.

glock27 wrote:I personally would have kept the fact that u were armed quiet. Do you volunterringly walk up to every cop you see and show tjem your chl? I think volunteering to the wrong cop is a situation that can be avoided in the future. Glad he was ok with it

That did it!!! I'm going over to "Glock Talk" forum to hang out for a while!!!

LOL. Anyway it all turned out good! Thanks for the advice everyone!

Jaguar wrote:Not to mention you headed off the cavity search.

It's all part of wereing a CHL badge!!!!!

Pecos wrote:When the trooper & I lifted the heavy wheel chair into the back of my truck the handle caught my jacket & lifed it to expose my gun in front of the TX Trooper. sense the trooper knew I had it it was no big deal. If I hadent said anythig I would have been jackked up at gun point!!!! This is why i told them because we were very close lifting things together. I'm not that supid to announce to every LEO. I think I did the right thing in this case!!!
I was offended but I got over it already!!!!

Plus I showed him my CHL Badge!!!!!

IMO you made the right choice....

Glad you had the badge as well...did you let them know you were part of the 'team'

When they saw my chl badge they knew I was part of the team. They needed my help!!!!!

I would have told the LEO's I was carrying, under similar conditions.
Avoiding surprises like that helps keep things calm and friendly.

Me: "Just wanted to let you know I've got a CHL and I'm armed this evening... well, pretty much all the time .. Didn't want to surprise you with that later."

RoyGBiv-thats pretty much what I said while I handed him the Lic. he barely looked at it. Im learning. Thanks. Thats why setting joking aside I like every one honest openion. Want to let every one know im not offended by anything. This is how we learn!! Thanks everyone!

I think you handled this perfectly.

You anticipated the fact that you were armed could become known as you worked closely together - and it did.

Since you had already shown that was OK, the officers didn't need to investigate further.

I seriously doubt you would have been jacked up or cavity searched if you hadn't offered the info up front but you successfully avoided a potentially awkward moment.

Kudos on your good judgement and an equally suitable outcome.

Thanks you Excaliber .