Concealed weapon Badge

[Mule Packer]

Uh...I'm not an LEO, but I'll throw in my two cents, and it probably isn't worth even that. I've always thought that those who carry the concealed permit badges were posers. Yep. The badge makes 'em feel important...like they're real cops...almost...sorta. I mean, it's like, "Don't mess with me, man. I gotta badge!"

 

[DR505]

When I retired my badge was put into a shadow box along with my active credentials and length of service pins (poor sigP220.45 got the bottom tier treatment). I figure if the Bu wanted me to carry a badge after retirement they would have issued one along with the retired credentials and LEOSA card. I also don't carry handcuffs.

If I get in a shooting and the cops show up I will have nothing in my hands and I will comply with their commands quickly and politely.

 

[Moe Mentum]

I got one out of a Cracker Jack box when I was a kid, will that do ?

 

[Ray1970]

Yep. Mall ninja stuff for sure.

Kind of like a guy going to the range all decked out in battle gear that’s never spent a moment in combat.

All just fantasy and pretend for people with some sort of inferiority complex or a small appendage.

 

[transit]

Want to carry a badge? No problem, follow these simple steps:
1 - fill out application
2 - take written exam
3 - take physical exam
4 - submit personal integrity form
5 - submit to background investigation
6 - take polygraph
7 - take medical exam
8 - take psych exam
9 - get interviewed
10 - receive job offer, if you made it this far
11 - 18 weeks of academy training
12 - graduation day, here's your badge...and good luck, your going to need it

If your not willing to follow these simple steps, then leave the badges to those that are and the kids.

Dock, I'd bump that "18 weeks" academy training to 6 months+ (minimum) in my experience.



The topic at hand?

I wouldn't want to be that CWP guy who gets caught in a street robbery, etc. where he gets his pockets run by a bad guy, and out comes a badge. Better be able to do a song and dance about how it's fake in the moments before you're shot on principle.


I never had a "badge." Since retirement, I don't carry my shield anymore. They gave me a "retired" one, but as I said, it could be a real problem (for me) if I ever had to hand it over under duress.

 

[lkabug]

When you hear the doorbell ring (buzz, buzz)
When you see the badge of tin (tin, tin)
Then you know that junior birdman
Has turned his box tops in.

 

[biku324]

THREAD DRIFT! WARNING! THREAD DRIFT!

There are indeed people who are itching to shoot someone. The last really obvious one I met was a young contractor leaving Baghdad in the general Embassy drawdown in June '19. He kept trying to engage in any conversation with anyone in the waiting room for the Huey from the Embassy compound to the diplo support compound, then in the waiting area for the rhino ride to Baghdad International Airport.

He finally got one guy in the rhino to engage while traveling the 45 minutes or so from the compound to the airport. He couldn't wait to tell us all how he and a buddy 'shared' a confirmed kill on a "...haji in his man-dress..." in 2015. Mind you, this was in a confined rhino with 8 or 9 people in it plus the driver and security detail guy. At least half were Iraqis who had either naturalized or had green cards and were working for Uncle Sam at one of our locations.

He was eagerly anticipating getting his CCW once home in Winston-Salem. Lucky North Carolina. Not everyone has the wherewithal to be armed 24/7 - he was just my most obvious, recent example.

Thread Drift concluded.

 

[rockquarry]

Probably more than someone that needs two pistols and spare mags just to walk to the mail box, but there are more of those types here than people worried about bears.

Yes, it seems there are many that live "concealed carry" and are completely consumed by it. Maybe it's an offshoot hobby of its own. I guess as long as they are only "aspiring" gunfighters, they do no real harm by being eaten up with the fantasies and theories.

 

[dave1918a2]

Told not too in both places I lived. Aurora, CO called a badge on Your belt impersonating an Officer and would prosecute. SD, the Chief said He would prefer not to see it at all. I try to please the Boys in Blue.

 

[damienph]

I don't understand why someone would even buy one of those things.

Same guys that wear parts of military uniforms/clothing but never served.

 

[JJEH]

Don't buy one. If you already have one just throw it away and don't tell anyone you ever had it, deny everything

 

[stansdds]

1. I'm not a LEO.
2. I have a CCW badge, it's heavy, beautifully made, has my state seal, looks exactly like a Blackington B957 badge, gold with silver panels.
3. I do not carry the badge, it is for novelty purposes only.
4. Looks pretty darned good displayed with one of my S&W 645's in a 1980's Galco/******* shoulder holster.

As long as you do not actually use such an item, I think possession as a novelty item is fine, but otherwise, you are asking to be detained and possibly arrested.

 

[JJEH]

....but otherwise, you are asking to be detained and possibly arrested.

You are going to be detained for questioning anyway.

 

[Miami_JBT]

This topic has been discussed multiple times on this forum. I'm not aware of anyone ever saying it was a good idea. How many times are we going to have this discussion?

How many times have we proven gun control doesn't work, yet we still have to fight to protect our rights.

 

[Miami_JBT]

Absolutely! I'm always amazed at the number of "what caliber for bear" threads. How many people really encounter bears, or are in a position to encounter them, that it's such a big deal?

Rant over.

In Miami, after hurricane Andrew, it was a legit question. Same for "what round for lions and tigers?"

 

[Muss Muggins]

How many times have we proven gun control doesn't work, yet we still have to fight to protect our rights.

The war on drugs never worked either, but we’re still plugging along . . .

 

[transit]

The war on drugs never worked either, but we’re still plugging along . . .

The war on drugs was a lot more successful than the war on poverty.

 

[Muss Muggins]

The war on drugs was a lot more successful than the war on poverty.

I would make the argument that there was no reason for the latter . . .

 

[625-7]

Will be enrolling the better half in a CC course. I want documentation that she has been properly trained in the presentation and implementation of a registered Credit Card before a badge is issued


My take on the absurdity of the badge

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

You pull that cc badge stunt here in SC and you will lose you permit(forever) and probably go to jail for impersonating an officer.

As stated above this has been beat to death here before.