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Last Saturday night I was in Chick-filet with my 15 month old grand daughter and wearing a dark knit shirt untucked to cover my 45 in a leather belt holster. Several WPD officers were in there having supper also and were seated such that my weapon side was directely in their view. I was seated at a table and I'm quite sure that *any* observation on their part would reveal some *printing* of the weapon. My little girl even waved at them and they returned the wave. On their way out, I wished them a safe shift and they thanked me. No signage was visible at the resturant, but I would not have been surprised if they had wanted to ID me at some point, but they never did.
Does this qualify as a LEO contact ?
:)

A good one at that... 8)

There were mezmerized by the cows telling them to eat more chicken.

Seriously though, you probably don't look like a gangsta and I'm sure your little grand daughter is adorable so they have no reason to even think about questioning you.

Chicka-Flick (as we call it) is one of the last places I'd expect any opposition to concealed carry.

Four or five days a week, I stop at the Texarkana Chick-fil-A on Richmond Road, and carry lunch next door to my wife as she's grooming mutts at PetsMart. (She works days, I work evenings, and this is how we catch a few minutes together every day.)

Chick-fil-A in general, and this store in particular, are the antithesis of "fast food". Everything and everyone is immactulately clean, neat, polite, friendly, and fluent in standard English.

And for some real irony, it's the fastest place in town to get the food you asked for, prepared the way you requested, in 30 seconds or less.

It's the last place in town to expect a robbery. I always have a .45 at 3:00. Isn't that the point? Avoid dangerous situations, but be prepared wherever you go.

As for the PD "contact"... I believe those of us who carry in plain clothing are far more aware of printing than those who don't. That includes uniformed cops. A grandfather with his charming granddaughter in Chick-fil-A simply doesn't set off their alarms, even if you think you're printing quite obviously.

"Approach determines response", as we say. Non-suspicious behavior and standard dress gives you the cloak of invisibility to police eyes. Meanwhile, saggin', draggin', grabbin', and jiggin' will most definitely get you the hairy eyeball. I try to impress that on my teenagers' friends if they get all self-righteous about "the man" (a.k.a. "mall security") giving them a hard time. While they're doing their best gangsta impersonation, of course.

I'm just a forty-something fat guy wearing a loose untucked oversized shirt over a tee, going about my daily business. If you saw a bulge, it must have been a cell phone or insulin pump or PDA. :D

Kevin

KBCraig wrote: If you saw a bulge, it must have been a cell phone or insulin pump or PDA. :D

Kevin:

You've made me realize there is an advantage to having gray, thinning hair!

Chas.

There seems to be a lot of discussion about "bulges" lately...

I can't figure why that got started...

I think it was "anygun's" fault...

Nay nay Steve.

Twas your bulges you wild and crazy guy!