Weird thing happened today.
I went to pick up my daughter from her class at our normal time and she was a bit late. Now I still smoke, but I never smoke in my car, in case I want to sell it later. She was late getting out and I had begun to worry, calling and calling home, etc. I had forgotten that she was going to work on a project for extra credit, taking a few minutes extra to be done today.
So I stood outside my car and smoked my pipe for a while, while a police officer watched and I am sure, taking down my license number and running it through their system.
I am perfectly clean. No worries with being checked out by police, etc. Many years since I clocked some asshole for being an asshole and was charged for a felony assault for putting a piece of human shit into the hospital in about ten seconds. No charges that time - I always know who I take down. Still no worries.
However, perfectly legally, I was on school grounds with my daily carry .45 auto on my hip. I had not entered the building, nor had I intended to do so. I was just smoking my pipe outside my vehicle which I had parked under a large shade tree, next to where a police officer was also parked under an adjacent huge shade tree. I mean, seriously, would I be all mellow, puffing my pipe for twenty minutes, with my .45 on my hip in plain view of a police officer if "I was up to something?" Seriously!
I keep a gun safe inside my "secret place" where I will not post where it is kept and when I became worried about why my daughter was taking so long to exit the building. I stowed my arm and moved my car closer to the entrance and went inside to ask the attendants to page my daughter.
I was immediately stopped by three police officers.
Of course, I had my ID and my license to open carry in my wallet. The weird thing is that I could not convince any of the cops that I was there to pick up my daughter (until she called my cell, which the cops had confiscated at that point). The cop who had watched me for twenty minutes was not there and three other cops in charge of securing the school had a report of suspect approaching the school with a weapon.
Even after my daughter called and ONE OF THEM took the call I still had to show them that I was who I said I was with all the personal credentials I could dig out of my wallet and my car, before they would allow me to continue on my way with my daughter.
She was like, Dad, what happened!??!
The only time I have ever been challenged for keeping my .45 on my hip was at a small town Walmart, many years ago.
It was annoying. I was WELL beyond within my rights, etc. I am leaning toward making a scene, but I do not want my open carry privileges revoked.
Now, in a nearby middle school, some shithead kid came in and shot up a classmate and a teacher. That teacher fucked that kid up and got his two guns away from him before any one else, besides the teacher and one other student were injured.
I have to think of that incident as hyping up the cops and possibly causing this entire drama. When we went out to my car, the officer who had parked under the trees with me was there with riot gear on and responding to his radio.
I walked up to him, holding his M4 machine gun leveled at the ground in front of me and apologized for causing him any amount concern. I showed him where I keep my gun safe, demonstrated that my weapon was loaded and ready to go and I was safe with it.
After I made a big show of just how proficient I was with my weapon, I put it back on my hip right in front of him, perfectly within my rights as a law abiding, licensed citizen in good standing for all to see, since he was wearing a body cam.
I got into my car and drove away with my sweet, mostly safe daughter.
Sometimes, they just have to check some things out, I guess.
