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I was doing my usual Saturday errands a few blocks from my house, when I looked up and saw I was being pulled over. This is the first time since I started carrying that I have been pulled over, which added a bit of nervousness. I went through my mental checklist :
License, regiatration, DL,CHL, don't say "gun"

Officer pulled me over and asked for my license and registration, which I handed him along with my CHL. He asked calmly "Do you have your weapon with you"? I said yes and he asked where and I answered on my hip. He simply said "ok, just keep it there". Turns out I had a tail light out ,and about 2 minutes later I was on my way with no citation. Although I felt nervous, apparently Officer Stewart of the CPD has seen a license before.

CPD? which town? ..
Great report on a good (is there really such a thing ) stop

The number of local LEO's I count as friends, ride bikes with, enjoy a beer in a local bar at now number 4.... None exhibit any anti CHL tendencies; now feel compiled as a rule to disarm an authorized, licensed citizen being contacted for no more than a traffic violation or accident.

Sorry, Carrollton PD

webb3201 wrote:Sorry, Carrollton PD

Thanks I live in Kempner and work at Fort hood with Copperas Cove in-between... So I was curious if CPD was our finest local law.

I came very close to following in your footsteps today but for a different reason. I turned the corner off of Beltline road and started North on the service road for I-35E. It is zoned 35mph. I was muttering to myself about why that section was 35 when most of the rest of the service roads in that area are set at 45mph when a pickup truck buzzed around me, going at least 10mph faster that I was.. He wasn't 50 yards up the road in front of me when a marked CPD lit him up. I quickly checked my speedometer and it about 37.

But for that pickup, I, too, might have become acquainted with Carrollton's finest. I was getting ready to mash the gas to start accelerating towards the entrance ramp. Whew, dodged another one!

Registration? Is this a new requirement for Texas, or were you driving a commercial vehicle? (This query demonstrates how often I get pulled over, knock on wood...)

kahrfreak wrote:Registration? Is this a new requirement for Texas, or were you driving a commercial vehicle? (This query demonstrates how often I get pulled over, knock on wood...)

All motor vehicles in Texas that are driven on public highways are required to have current registration. I don't think this is new.

WildBill wrote:

kahrfreak wrote:Registration? Is this a new requirement for Texas, or were you driving a commercial vehicle? (This query demonstrates how often I get pulled over, knock on wood...)

All motor vehicles in Texas that are driven on public highways are required to have current registration. I don't think this is new.

Doesn't having current stickers (registration and inspection) on the windshield satisfy this requirement?