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Originally Posted by Pete
Me? I would assume he didn't want to take the chance of a jacket possibly hiding the view of the weapon and then being charged with carrying a "concealed weapon". Example - wear a pistol on a leg holster below your top of the rear pocket length coat. Walk into some food joint, unzip your jacket, sit at the counter and lean forward. Concealed weapon? It's now not in plain sight.
I had a friend arrested for carrying a concealed weapon. It was a lock blade knife he had in his back pocket. When the cop was asked how he knew the guy had a concealed weapon - he said he could see the outline through the cloth of the pocket.
I do a lot of in and out work in the winter. I carry a coat in the car but most of the times just wear my shirt.
I'm assuming it's still legal to walk around without a coat in winter?
Fayetteville is having a problem with DWB right now. I'm begining to think the Civil Rights folks need to wire up a few slick cars with a few video cameras, get some hip-hop looking drivers and run them around town. See what happens.
5 years ago I would have been firmly on the cops side - "The dude deserved to be pulled". Now? The best I could say is I'm on the fence.
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If I am not mistaken, he stated that he had a CCW, which would have covered the concealment. Mistakes were made on both sides apparently.