We went to the Sheriff's annual Scouting day in Bakersfield. Booths for every facet of the Sheriff's operations from SWAT to CSI to the Bomb Squads robot demos. Really a neat time. We were checking out maybe becoming involved with search and rescue.
I took an opportunity to ask a Deputy how he would want to be notified. Outlining the difference between formal and informal encounters.
His answer was if it was a formal contact, hands in plain sight (in a car hands on the wheel) and simply say: Deputy I have a ccw and I am armed.
If it was informal like he sat in the next booth at a restaurant he wouldn't want to be notified at all.
He totally agreed not to use the word weapon or the word gun.
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