In your scenario no one ASKED to see your LTC. The question posed by the OP was what would you do when asked.chasfm11 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2020 8:37 amSo how about this scenario? You go to attend a city sponsored event and they have put up a fence around the entire downtown area, have hired security guards and are wanding all entrants, sending people back to their cars with their pocket knives. WWYD? If you show your LTC, you risk a he said/she said about whether the person with the wand is "in authority".Lynyrd wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2020 12:44 pm I don't have a problem with anyone in any position of responsibility asking to see my LTC. After all, if you don't have one, you are already violating the law here in Texas by carrying anywhere outside of your own property and vehicles. I am always polite and cooperative, and try to be a good ambassador for our cause. That being said, I have only been asked a few times. I remember a couple of times in a business (one was a liquor store). I also remember a couple of times when visiting with friends or acquaintances on private property owned by someone that I did not know. Showing your LTC is courteous, and takes away all questions of what your intent might be.
I elected to say, in a calm voice, "I don't want to be wanded." I got a response in a belligerent tone that said everyone had to be wanded. I calmly asked for a supervisor. Instead, two local LEOs showed up and one approached me, asking me "are you having a good day?" I again replied calmly, showed him my LTC and told him that I didn't think that it would be a good idea for the guy with the wand to find what was on my right hip. In the end, the officer that I spoke me asked me to be wanded, I held up my hands and let the security guard run his wand over me, not worrying about whatever noises that wand made and the officer and I walked into the event, talking about guns. I'm certain that he was convinced that I posed no threat and he acknowledged that the city had to allow concealed carry. I'm confident that it would not have turned out as well if I had shown my LTC to the paid security guy but there is no way to tell that for sure. BTW, I had a pocket knife with me, too.
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- Fri Feb 28, 2020 2:23 pm
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- Wed Feb 26, 2020 12:44 pm
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I don't have a problem with anyone in any position of responsibility asking to see my LTC. After all, if you don't have one, you are already violating the law here in Texas by carrying anywhere outside of your own property and vehicles. I am always polite and cooperative, and try to be a good ambassador for our cause. That being said, I have only been asked a few times. I remember a couple of times in a business (one was a liquor store). I also remember a couple of times when visiting with friends or acquaintances on private property owned by someone that I did not know. Showing your LTC is courteous, and takes away all questions of what your intent might be.