[azurefly]

Texas is the only state, that I am sure of, that requires Concealed Handgun License (CHL) holders to perfunctorily inform a cop who stops them that they are packing a gun, and produce the CHL immediately (as with a traffic stop).


Do you agree or disagree with this requirement, and why?
Do you think that it should be adopted by other states that currently don't have it?
(Let's leave out the subject of whether you should even have to have a CHL to carry a gun for personal defense in the first place. This is not a "Vermont/Alaska carry thread.")

I personally do not like it. I don't think it is necessarily the business of the cop that I am a legal owner and carrier of a gun. I believe that nothing is served by a good person who means the cop no harm being forced to tell the cop that he has a gun, because a bad person who does mean the cop harm will not be admitting to being armed, but instead will just be shooting.

So if you defend the requirement, please go a step further and explain to us the real-world practical benefits of it.


-azurefly