denwego
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Heading home yesterday afternoon, I stopped in at the Flatiron Mall in Broomfield to make a quick run into Dicks Sporting Goods and snag some ammo. Considering we're in the middle of a 50s/60s "heat wave" around the Boulder area, I was OCing my 1911A1 in a nice tooled leather holster to match being somewhat dressed up after TAing earlier in the afternoon; my point being that if anything, I was dressed more nicely than days when I've been OCing in far more crowded places without so much as an eye batted.
As I was milling around trying to find a salesman to go behind the counter and grab a few boxes, a manager came up to me and asked, "Do you have a permit for that thing?" while gesturing with his chin in a half-interested manner. I said yes, I did, but that you don't need a permit if a pistol isn't concealed. He nodded and apologized for bothering me, saying that someone had rushed up to him saying "someone upstairs is wandering around with a gun, clearly not shopping and probably casing the joint for later!" I asked him if he wanted me to cover up my pistol while I was up by the ammunition counter and said it was fine, that it was mostly for show so the guy could see he was "handling the situation."
After grabbing my ammo, I started back toward the escalator when (who I'm sure was) this guy came up to me and said, "you're lucky I went to the manager instead of calling 911... he might not know the law, but I do! And if you're carrying without a permit, you should be in jail." He then proceded to tell me how "my buddy tried to get a permit in San Jose for years and couldn't"... always nice when the Californians inform us backwards country folk how the law is everywhere in the country, eh? I told him that firearms law isn't uniform across the US, and "you don't need to drive 55mph on the highway in Texas because there's a sign in Los Angeles." I then tried explaining to him that we don't need permission in Colorado to carry openly, but he began repeating himself in a superior manner, so I simply walked off in mid sentence after a minute.
It's a shame some people just won't even bother to acknowledge that a law can be different in two places, let alone that you can not be a self-righteous jerk EVERYWHERE in America without breaking a law yourself! :?
Heading home yesterday afternoon, I stopped in at the Flatiron Mall in Broomfield to make a quick run into Dicks Sporting Goods and snag some ammo. Considering we're in the middle of a 50s/60s "heat wave" around the Boulder area, I was OCing my 1911A1 in a nice tooled leather holster to match being somewhat dressed up after TAing earlier in the afternoon; my point being that if anything, I was dressed more nicely than days when I've been OCing in far more crowded places without so much as an eye batted.
As I was milling around trying to find a salesman to go behind the counter and grab a few boxes, a manager came up to me and asked, "Do you have a permit for that thing?" while gesturing with his chin in a half-interested manner. I said yes, I did, but that you don't need a permit if a pistol isn't concealed. He nodded and apologized for bothering me, saying that someone had rushed up to him saying "someone upstairs is wandering around with a gun, clearly not shopping and probably casing the joint for later!" I asked him if he wanted me to cover up my pistol while I was up by the ammunition counter and said it was fine, that it was mostly for show so the guy could see he was "handling the situation."
After grabbing my ammo, I started back toward the escalator when (who I'm sure was) this guy came up to me and said, "you're lucky I went to the manager instead of calling 911... he might not know the law, but I do! And if you're carrying without a permit, you should be in jail." He then proceded to tell me how "my buddy tried to get a permit in San Jose for years and couldn't"... always nice when the Californians inform us backwards country folk how the law is everywhere in the country, eh? I told him that firearms law isn't uniform across the US, and "you don't need to drive 55mph on the highway in Texas because there's a sign in Los Angeles." I then tried explaining to him that we don't need permission in Colorado to carry openly, but he began repeating himself in a superior manner, so I simply walked off in mid sentence after a minute.
It's a shame some people just won't even bother to acknowledge that a law can be different in two places, let alone that you can not be a self-righteous jerk EVERYWHERE in America without breaking a law yourself! :?