OC for ME
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If a permit is required to OC, show the darn permit, while recording the interaction.
Laws can change faster when the state has to pay citizens for the unlawful acts of their employees. If LACs are getting harassed by cops for OC and the state/county/city has to keep writing check to folks who were not breaking the law then the law that requires the permit is more easily repealed, or clarified.
Here in Missouri we are attempting to change the law to permit OC via permit (not the best outcome, but better given RSMo 21.750.3) and as such the legislation included verbiage that OC is not RAS, per se, and that the firearm cannot be confiscated for "officer safety" or the citizen physically restrained (cuffed?).
Laws can change faster when the state has to pay citizens for the unlawful acts of their employees. If LACs are getting harassed by cops for OC and the state/county/city has to keep writing check to folks who were not breaking the law then the law that requires the permit is more easily repealed, or clarified.
Here in Missouri we are attempting to change the law to permit OC via permit (not the best outcome, but better given RSMo 21.750.3) and as such the legislation included verbiage that OC is not RAS, per se, and that the firearm cannot be confiscated for "officer safety" or the citizen physically restrained (cuffed?).
Follow the law, even if it sucks, and work to change the law via the courts or legislature....(c) In the absence of any reasonable and articulable suspicion of criminal activity, no person carrying a concealed or unconcealed firearm shall be disarmed or physically restrained by a law enforcement officer unless under arrest;...