VAopencarry
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So I am driving down I66 east when I get lit up by VSP.
I pull over, turn off radio, flip my mirror due to BRIGHT lights of the Trooper, turn on inside light, hands on the wheel and wait. Trooper comes up to the passenger window, I wind it down. -In Virginia there is not a 'duty to notify'. My personal thoughts have been I would not notify unless I believed there was a chance the officer might see my firearm, then I would advise him/her rather than them being surprised.
I had a backpack leaning against the back of passenger seat and a holstered XD9 sub compact halfway stuck behind it.( If the Trooper would have approached the driver side window it would have been fairly noticeable if he glanced around the interior.) Since his eyeballs were only 1.5 feet from the firearm, though partially obscured, I thought it best to let him know.
Trooper: License and registration please
Me: (as I reach for my wallet) Be advised I have a CHP and there is firearm under that backpack.
Trooper: OK.........Let me see your CHP too.
Me: Yes Sir
Trooper: Is it loaded?
Me: (I am now thinking this is where it is going to start going downhill) Yes.
Trooper( As I hand him my driver's license and conceal permit) and your registration?
Me: (hand him registration)
Trooper: See here -this is why I stopped you.( Expired sticker)
Me: I know, (as I hold up a citation I had recently received for the same infraction. Thanks LEO 229!!!!!:cuss: )
Trooper: OK I won't write you up another one, let me go run your license, be right back.
Me: (hands back on the steering wheel)
etc..
The Trooper never even blinked when I mentioned a firearm, professional and courteous the whole encounter. I was wearing a Kimber hat, at some point in the conversation he asked me if my gun was a Kimber. That was the only other mention of the gun that came up.
Kidding aside, I think there is a fair chance LEO229 WAS the officer that gave me the expired sticker citation while my truck was parked. I'll have to verify.:lol:
So I am driving down I66 east when I get lit up by VSP.
I pull over, turn off radio, flip my mirror due to BRIGHT lights of the Trooper, turn on inside light, hands on the wheel and wait. Trooper comes up to the passenger window, I wind it down. -In Virginia there is not a 'duty to notify'. My personal thoughts have been I would not notify unless I believed there was a chance the officer might see my firearm, then I would advise him/her rather than them being surprised.
I had a backpack leaning against the back of passenger seat and a holstered XD9 sub compact halfway stuck behind it.( If the Trooper would have approached the driver side window it would have been fairly noticeable if he glanced around the interior.) Since his eyeballs were only 1.5 feet from the firearm, though partially obscured, I thought it best to let him know.
Trooper: License and registration please
Me: (as I reach for my wallet) Be advised I have a CHP and there is firearm under that backpack.
Trooper: OK.........Let me see your CHP too.
Me: Yes Sir
Trooper: Is it loaded?
Me: (I am now thinking this is where it is going to start going downhill) Yes.
Trooper( As I hand him my driver's license and conceal permit) and your registration?
Me: (hand him registration)
Trooper: See here -this is why I stopped you.( Expired sticker)
Me: I know, (as I hold up a citation I had recently received for the same infraction. Thanks LEO 229!!!!!:cuss: )
Trooper: OK I won't write you up another one, let me go run your license, be right back.
Me: (hands back on the steering wheel)
etc..
The Trooper never even blinked when I mentioned a firearm, professional and courteous the whole encounter. I was wearing a Kimber hat, at some point in the conversation he asked me if my gun was a Kimber. That was the only other mention of the gun that came up.
Kidding aside, I think there is a fair chance LEO229 WAS the officer that gave me the expired sticker citation while my truck was parked. I'll have to verify.:lol: