Ferrari Mailing List: Re: NFC - Guns & CCWs - was New Indian...

[LarryT (l02turner]

thx AJ - that's reassuring -

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "A.J. Merrifield" <101pdt [at] gmail.com>
To: "Larry Turner" <l02turner [at] comcast.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 12:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] NFC - Guns & CCWs - was New Indian...


> You know, in all honesty I tend to be a bit more comfortable when I run
> someone's tags during a traffic stop and it tells me that they've got a
> CCW.  That tells me that if the person driving the vehicle is a registered
> owner, then a) they're not a felon and they've passed (at least a
> rudimentary) background check, b) they're a (generally) law-abiding 
> citizen
> who has taken the time to do the right thing and take a class and register
> for a CCW, and c) 99% of the time they're not some whackjob liberal out to
> scream at me because I've got a gun on my hip.
>
> Ric says it perfectly: Identify yourself as a CCW holder, keep both hands 
> in
> plain site, produce the CCW and DL when requested, and be polite.  99.9% 
> of
> the time you'll just get a warning (unless you were REALLY driving like an
> idiot).
>
> Just my $.02.  The local county mountie wherever you are may vary.
>
> - A.J.
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