.308 Norma
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I hope this doesn’t evolve into an argument – there are certainly enough arguments already on these Internet forums about whether or not to inform the LEO you’re carrying during a routine traffic stop.
Nevertheless, my question is this; If your CCW License/Permit is somehow linked to your vehicle’s license plate number, how does the LEO know whether it’s you, OR your spouse that is the CCW holder?
I’d bet dollars to donuts that in the US, most vehicles belonging to married couples are registered in both their names. Furthermore, I suspect that in most cases, if there’s a CCW License/Permit at all, only one partner of the married couple holds one.
In Idaho (where we live) permit-less carry is legal now in most places. But I’m just not sure that in Idaho our concealed weapons licenses have ever been linked to our motor vehicle registrations. Maybe they have, but back in 2001, I was issued a traffic citation (which was dismissed) by an overzealous young officer, and he didn’t ask a thing about CCWs even though it was at night, and I’d pulled into a dark alley to get out of traffic when I saw the blue lights come on behind me. Was the reason the young officer didn’t ask about CCWs possibly because my wife (yes - my wife) who wasn’t along at the time, was the one of us with a Concealed Weapons License? Or was it maybe because my wife’s name is the second name on our motor vehicle registrations, therefore her CCW License isn’t linked to our vehicles’ license plates?
Nevertheless, my question is this; If your CCW License/Permit is somehow linked to your vehicle’s license plate number, how does the LEO know whether it’s you, OR your spouse that is the CCW holder?
I’d bet dollars to donuts that in the US, most vehicles belonging to married couples are registered in both their names. Furthermore, I suspect that in most cases, if there’s a CCW License/Permit at all, only one partner of the married couple holds one.
In Idaho (where we live) permit-less carry is legal now in most places. But I’m just not sure that in Idaho our concealed weapons licenses have ever been linked to our motor vehicle registrations. Maybe they have, but back in 2001, I was issued a traffic citation (which was dismissed) by an overzealous young officer, and he didn’t ask a thing about CCWs even though it was at night, and I’d pulled into a dark alley to get out of traffic when I saw the blue lights come on behind me. Was the reason the young officer didn’t ask about CCWs possibly because my wife (yes - my wife) who wasn’t along at the time, was the one of us with a Concealed Weapons License? Or was it maybe because my wife’s name is the second name on our motor vehicle registrations, therefore her CCW License isn’t linked to our vehicles’ license plates?
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