had that happen in ky, I went shooting when I was 19, in ky you must be 21 to carry a handgun, I took the ar but left the handgun( the only time), I did my shooting and since the barrel was hot I leaned it against the back seat of my four door car and headed down the road to cut fire wood(legal in nat forest but I guess you need a permit(did not have one) a officer stopped behind me asked if I was alone why I was cutting it, I said I was cutting up some fallen trees for firewood, mainly camp fire and such. He checked my liceanse and said I could load what I had cut and cut the remaining tree I was cutting on and to then go get a permit, When he pulled off and stopped up the road I noticed why the ar was in the window
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So you have a 19 year old from indiana in ky cutting firewood with an assualt weapon in the window
, plus it was pot growing heaven. He got out walked back to me with his gun unclipped but holstered with his hand on it. He asked me if the rifle was loaded, I said no but there was 500 rounds in the car and 6 30 round mags loaed beside it
He asked if it was full auto, I said no that would be illegal, he then asked if I was carrying I said no I ant 21, He said if he had permission to check it out, I said sure would your like to get it or would you like me to, he opted to retrieve it, As he checked it for full auto fire and or changes not legal he ran it through, this is where it hit me I had bought it from the gun smith for the indianapolis swat team and it was still under their name, he turned to me and said do you know who this gun comes up to, I said I would guess the indy swat team
He laughed said well that is a new one for me. and that was the end of it. He did say for future reference not to cut fire wood with a ar15 in my car window. I offered to follow him to the range and let him "test' it but he was busy
Originally Posted by
Nomercy448
I've almost always had a gun in my car, usually just a .22 pistol, or a .17 HMR revolver for cleaning up coyotes around the farm should one present itself. I've had two instances where I was "caught" with a gun in my car. Both were before we passed CCW in Kansas.
The first time I was only 17, I had a Ruger Mark II pistol loaded with one in the pipe sitting on my dash. It set nicely in the molded dash tray, so that's just where I left it all the time. I always kept it locked and loaded in case I'd spot a coyote. It never even crossed my mind when I saw the red lights in my rear view. I quickly dug through my glove box looking for my current registration. As soon as the officer walked up, I offered my license and reg, but the officer spotted the stainless pistol right away. He smirked and asked me if I had any weapons in the car, blatantly leaning to look at the pistol, and I said, "oh #$@!, yes, I always keep that pistol up there for coyotes". I assumed I was about to have a gun drawn on me, or at least have some big to do where he'd have to secure the weapon, etc. However, the officer just asked me to step out of the vehicle for his safety. He had me stand in the ditch beside our cars as he ran my info. Once I checked out, he gave me a verbal warning and sent me on my way. Never even touched the pistol, never said anything else about it.
The second time was a few years later, I had the same pistol in my glove box. The magazine was in a cubby in the dash. I didn't even think about the pistol being in the glovebox, along with about 3 or 4 other written warnings for speeding. Again, the officer quickly spotted the pistol as I reached for my registration. He quickly stopped me and asked if it was loaded, I said no, and pointed out that he mag was in the cubby on the dash, and he could clearly see the mag well was empty. He instructed me to set it on the dash, and we went on with the traffic stop. He ran my license and reg and came back and gave me another written warning, and even joked that I could add it to the "collection" of others I already had in the glove box. Never said anything else about the pistol.
I was pulled over in Oklahoma once in college and when the officer asked if I had any guns in the car, I answered honestly and said I had a pistol (same Ruger Mark II) in the glovebox. He pointed out a pistol bag I had on the rear floorboard and asked if that was another one, but it was empty. He said to comply with OK law, I really needed to take the pistol out of the glove box and put it in the pistol bag in the back seat... It SHOULD be locked, but zipped up was close enough.
On the other hand, I was pulled over AGAIN in OK a few months later for crossing the center-line (eating an icecream cone while driving), but DIDN'T have the pistol on board, but when the officer spotted the magazine in the dash tray, he instructed me out of the car and I spent 3hrs handcuffed to his grill-guard while him and 3 other officers searched my vehicle for drugs and guns. Of course they didn't find anything and eventually they let me off without even a ticket.
I personally wouldn't have OFFERED any information about the gun or your permit. The point of the CCW program is to keep the weapons CONCEALED. Officers are trained to approach EVERY stop as if the driver is an agitated tweaker with an AK-47 and a deathwish, and they are fully aware that they work in a CCW state, so they'll be pretty non-chalant about someone legally carrying.