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National Retired Police CC

GunHawkeGunHawke Member Posts: 576 ✭✭✭
edited September 2001 in General Discussion
I've suggested this to anyone I get an audience with. From G. Gordon Liddy to Congressman Kind (D-Wi.) and in emails where ever I think they might be read. How about concealed carry permits for every retired policeman in the U.S.? Make it voluntary & run it through the local Sheriff records Dept. Instant national security of a kind!(I emailed Dubya....why not?)
"They blink an eye or draw a breath before they pull a trigger. I won't!" J.B. Books
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    How is a retired cop any more worthy of a national CCW permit than anyone else? 'Cause you were a cop, that means you're squeaky clean. Or more qualified with a firearm. Hardly.
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  • GunHawkeGunHawke Member Posts: 576 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Lowrider...touchy?Yep, I was a LawDog. But I can't come up with a known group other that cops or military (obviously all states don't allow CC) to be able to "feature" quickly to a legislator.No CCPs in my state.....and I'm not in a bad mood tonite....yet.
    "They blink an eye or draw a breath before they pull a trigger. I won't!" J.B. Books
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    Nah. I'm not touchy. I just hate it when an entire class of people are treated as one.Just as there are non LEO citizens who shouldn't be packing a gun, I believe the same applies to some cops and retired cops. I think every man needs to be looked at individually.Washington is a right-to-carry state and they don't make exceptions for people when they apply just because they retired from law enforcement. I think that's fair.If I had retired from driving interstate trucks would it be fair for the Feds to issue me and all my retired truck-driving buddies a special National, drive anything anywhere in the country drivers license? This would circumvent all the state's drivers license regulations, just the same as a national concealed weapons permit would circumvent those same state's gun laws.
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  • stanmanstanman Member Posts: 3,052
    edited November -1
    I notice many retired LEOs wanting to speed this through the process. While I'm sure the posters on this site are fine upstanding gentlemen with unquestionable judgement, this thing sounds like a rush to disaster!
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  • mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm with LOWRIDER,If retired LEO's get a national CCW. I get one too. (Hell, there SHOULD BE a national CCW reciprocal agreement now.) I'll bet that a lot of us are just as proficient with a weapon as the majority of LEO's. Just because LEO's are trained in "law enforcement" doesn't mean they are better trained in the use of a firearm than the rest of us. It means they are better trained in enforcement of the law. Two ENTIRELY different things.Mudge
    Anyone who CAN carry, SHOULD carry!Let me update that.Anyone who CAN carry, BETTER carry.[This message has been edited by mudge (edited 09-21-2001).]
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  • HAIRYHAIRY Member Posts: 23,606
    edited November -1
    Don't mean to offend, but when I was growing up in Chicago, we used to play "cops and/or robbers." Sort of think this may still be true.
    It's not what you know that gets you in trouble, it's what you know that just ain't so!
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