Do You Wear an Empty Holster Into No Carry Zones

[SeanO]

You do know that it's just as illegal for you to have it in your car in the post office parking lot as it would be if you carried it inside.

I am afraid of someone seeing me take it out of my holster and reporting me,,,
Actually I'm more afraid of that than if I were to carry it inside.

You may laugh at that concern but it happened in my small town of Ripley, OK,,,
Some old biddy saw a woman take hers out of her purse and put it in the glove box,,,
The old biddy told the postmaster and he called the county sheriff the next time the lady pulled in.

I park across the street now,,,
I lock it in a box cabled to my car seat frame.

Call me paranoid,,,
But I don't think I would enjoy a federal prison.

Aarond

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It's only a district court but I is our district circuit court(pretty sure OK and CO are both 10th Circuit) so it would apply in OK

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/11/us/guns-post-office/

Eta: I don't see that it went through the circuit court... Sooo I may be a little off....


Eta2: edited for typing too fast errors left in but fixed

 

[aestus]

I just remove the firearm and leave on the empty holster. Never has been a problem except for 2 cases.

Once was at one of the larger music concert venues in OKC. The security guard did his pat down felt the IWB holster and asked what it was. I told him and he shoved his fat fingers down the IWB repeatedly as if he was reenacting some porn scene on my holster. Afterwards, he was cool about it and let me in. About 15 minutes later, I see him searching the crowd. He sees me and beckons me to come to him. He explains that one of the OKC Police officers on duty as security at the venue had a major cow (I'm assuming the cop was wondering why this guy was fat fingering my holster like pornstar in heat and asked him about it) and says that I have to leave the holster in my vehicle or leave the premises immediately possibly with police escort if there's a problem. I asked which officer it was and when he pointed him out, the cop immediately turned around and avoided eye contact with me. I went back my vehicle and came back and by then the entire staff knew about me made me go in a separate line to be patted down again for entry. Again, the cop who had the problem with me being there with an empty holster avoided eye contact with me. What a jerkface.

The second time was when I was in the downtown okc courthouse. There is this fat S.O.B. sheriffs deputy who works guard duty there all the time. The mouth breather literally has nothing better to do than make fun of people's shirts or exert his "authority" when someone forgets to remove their pocket knife and he condescendingly tells them that their knife is now confiscated and to be destroyed. I removed my keys and wallet and my IWB holster to run it through the scanner. This mouth breather jumps up and sternly asks me what my holster was. I calmly replied that it was a gun holster. He then loudly screams "A WHAT!??" I calmly repeat that it was my gun holster and for my concealed carry. He goes nuts and starts calling for the attention of other deputies and they pretty much ignore him. I go through the metal detectors, grab my keys, wallet and holster and proceed to put my holster back on and go on my merry way while he shakes his head in disapproval. The whole time he's fumbling trying to figure out if he needed to do something or not.... sigh.

 

[SigInBoots]

Nope. If the firearm has to come off, the holster comes off with it. There's no sense in risking a negligent discharge trying to reholster a firearm while, say, sitting in my car after the gun-free errand is over. It's not necessarily as easy to put an IWB holster back on as it would be to simply re-holster the gun, but it's safer.

 

[SeanO]

Nope. If the firearm has to come off, the holster comes off with it. :snip

This, IF, I'm still In uniform. I'll actually sit in my truck and take 10 mins to rip my duty belt off. An empty holster IMO says "hey I'm unarmed come frack with me".

If I'm carrying off duty and the location doesn't have a metal detector... well... concealed is concealed.

 

[Swab]

I only carry IWB for the time being, and I too am taken to various courthouses and other public/government buildings where it is illegal to posses a firearm. I leave mine on during runs to most prohibited zones, except for Wagoner County. The only time I've ever had trouble was in the Wagoner County courthouse. I had to drop off a document, which should have taken all of 2 minutes, and ended up being close to half an hour. I also had to leave my boots, belt, and holster up front with security. To be honest I only left those items up front because I didn't want to lose my temper at the guy. From now on I have my co-worker take care of any business at Wagoner County.

 

[CrossroadHolsters.com]

I have a holster company and that was one of the questions I addressed when coming up with the design. I wanted a holster that the user could take on and off for situations just like these and not have to undo their pants to do it.

 

[twoguns?]

Looks pretty nice, may have to try a couple.



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