walrus
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Hi to all. Just wanted to get some feedback on this. I was at the Cannonsburg, KY (Ashland area)Wal Mart last night shopping after work. About 1:00am. The only people there were the stockers. I have a ccw license. I had my pistol in its holster stuck in my back pocket. I would say it was covered up most of the time by my long shirt. I knew it was visible at times but didn't care one way or the other b/c of my ccw and Ky being an open carry state. About halfway thru my shopping a manager asked if I needed any help. I asked about some gloves but she was no help. Later I see a kid peaking around the isle at me. Weird kid I think. Few isles later I see Johny Law State Trooper at the other end. I start to wonder but continue to look at the frozen food. Next, he is behind me telling me to turn around and put my hands up.I do so while saying I have agun and a ccw permit. So there I am staring at frozen pizza while as it turns out 3 State Troopers are behind me. One is holding my hands, another is trying to pull my pistol out. He gets it without accidently shooting me with it, one ask if I have another gun and I tell him I have aconcelaed knife in my front pocket whileanother is trying to pull my wallet out, and eventually one pats me down. They let me turn around. The one with my wallet is running my license and finding my ccw permit. He says I am good. Then they tell me I freaked out someone at walmart. I ask that isn't open carry permitted in Ky? He says yes but that guns make people jumpy.He advises me not to carry open and says something about being charged with disorderly conduct(someone please explain that to me). They leave and I go fetch my gun off the buggy. I pull it from the holster, chamber a round, and decock it. I then stick it on my belt (edited, inside my waistbandwith much trouble as those workpants were way to tight and that is the whole reason it was in my backpocket) and begin to pull my shirt over it. But I think screw it and leave it in the open. This is when the manager I had talked to earlier and two other workers walk up to me. She says she is sorry but she was doing her job with the safety of others in mind. Then she says she may feel safer knowing I legally have a gun.?
Maybe if people knew their laws and libertiesI wouldn't have to go thru this.Maybe if she had asked me the first timeshe talked to me about my gun or to see a permit, or to keep it covered up because I wasmaking someone uncomfortable.
What do you think? Any thoughts on what the officer meant by disorderly conduct?
Hi to all. Just wanted to get some feedback on this. I was at the Cannonsburg, KY (Ashland area)Wal Mart last night shopping after work. About 1:00am. The only people there were the stockers. I have a ccw license. I had my pistol in its holster stuck in my back pocket. I would say it was covered up most of the time by my long shirt. I knew it was visible at times but didn't care one way or the other b/c of my ccw and Ky being an open carry state. About halfway thru my shopping a manager asked if I needed any help. I asked about some gloves but she was no help. Later I see a kid peaking around the isle at me. Weird kid I think. Few isles later I see Johny Law State Trooper at the other end. I start to wonder but continue to look at the frozen food. Next, he is behind me telling me to turn around and put my hands up.I do so while saying I have agun and a ccw permit. So there I am staring at frozen pizza while as it turns out 3 State Troopers are behind me. One is holding my hands, another is trying to pull my pistol out. He gets it without accidently shooting me with it, one ask if I have another gun and I tell him I have aconcelaed knife in my front pocket whileanother is trying to pull my wallet out, and eventually one pats me down. They let me turn around. The one with my wallet is running my license and finding my ccw permit. He says I am good. Then they tell me I freaked out someone at walmart. I ask that isn't open carry permitted in Ky? He says yes but that guns make people jumpy.He advises me not to carry open and says something about being charged with disorderly conduct(someone please explain that to me). They leave and I go fetch my gun off the buggy. I pull it from the holster, chamber a round, and decock it. I then stick it on my belt (edited, inside my waistbandwith much trouble as those workpants were way to tight and that is the whole reason it was in my backpocket) and begin to pull my shirt over it. But I think screw it and leave it in the open. This is when the manager I had talked to earlier and two other workers walk up to me. She says she is sorry but she was doing her job with the safety of others in mind. Then she says she may feel safer knowing I legally have a gun.?
Maybe if people knew their laws and libertiesI wouldn't have to go thru this.Maybe if she had asked me the first timeshe talked to me about my gun or to see a permit, or to keep it covered up because I wasmaking someone uncomfortable.
What do you think? Any thoughts on what the officer meant by disorderly conduct?