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**Vanya** · May 4, 2013, 08:52 AM

Good question. My first thought is that if I were open carrying, I would stay in the car until the police arrived, tell them about the gun, and ask them how they wanted me to proceed. Safest for everybody that way, including you. If you don't leave the car, it would be really hard for the other driver to claim you were threatening him -- for one thing, if you stay in the car, he won't know you're armed.

I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think that having a handgun in the car would change how the accident would be regarded legally.

May 4, 2013, 08:52 AM	#2
Vanya Staff Join Date: July 7, 2008 Location: Upper midwest Posts: 3,825	Good question. My first thought is that if I were open carrying, I would stay in the car until the police arrived, tell them about the gun, and ask them how they wanted me to proceed. Safest for everybody that way, including you. If you don't leave the car, it would be really hard for the other driver to claim you were threatening him -- for one thing, if you stay in the car, he won't know you're armed. I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think that having a handgun in the car would change how the accident would be regarded legally. __________________ "Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding." (Milan Kundera, Book of Laughter and Forgetting, 1980)