CCW permit as form of photo ID

[mrchick]

My wife and I were traveling last fall and TSA kept scanning my driver’s license and couldn’t get it to scan. The TSA agent looked at the picture and said, “Yep, that’s you” and let me through security. I was putting the license in my wallet and realized that I had accidentally given her my concealed carry permit which looks a lot like an Idaho D. L. [emoji1]

 

[CH4]

My Passport has the name I was given at birth.

I didn't get a driver's license until I was an adult, so I used my Draft Card to cash checks. That freaked out the bank tellers!

Ivan

Ahh

Ivan the Butcher II

 

[Smoke]

Several years ago I went to renew my driver's license at the DMV. The counter lady told me that she could not accept my current driver's license as photo ID. The fact that the DMV wouldn't accept the driver's license they issued me raises its own set of questions but the lady told me that she would accept an MMJ card or a Concealed Handgun Permit as ID.

So I gave her the permit as my ID and she started asking me questions about my permit. The DMV is not posted in Colorado. I did not explicitly tell her that I was carrying a gun I did tell her that I never left my home unarmed.

Once the application was done she needed to take my photograph for the driver's license. For some reason I had to take my jacket off before she could take my picture. I told her I couldn't because the building was posted against Open Carry.

I watched her eyes get big and she asked me if I was carrying a gun right then. I had just told this woman that I never left my home unarmed and she didn't get it. She told me to take my jacket off and wrap it around my waist while she took my picture. Once she got past the initial shock it didn't seem to bother her.

That was the only time I've ever used my concealed handgun permit as an ID.

A lot of people have already dogpiled on the OP so I'm only going to say this. It's been my experience that when you go deliberately messing with people to get a reaction you usually get one and it's usually not the one you wanted.

 

[Truckman]

For some reason I had to take my jacket off before she could take my picture. I told her I couldn't because the building was posted against Open Carry.

Maybe it was a wise decision not to wear a shoulder holster that day......Ben

 

[AJ]

I didn't get a driver's license until I was an adult, so I used my Draft Card to cash checks. That freaked out the bank tellers!

Ivan

I was the other way around. I got my driver's license at 14. Never got a draft card until I was 21 and already had two tours in RVN and four in the Corps.

 

[Doug M.]

Wife and I going on a trip, I had a copy of Guns& Ammo magazine. It was in the screened in pocket on the front of my carry on. You could see what was there as it was behind a piece of movable mesh. I grabbed it as I left the house to have something to read during the flight!

Yep just that magazine got me the full deluxe treatment but finely we got on board. A good chance that put me on a couple more terrorists lists. As a long time NRA life member its conceivable they have a decent dossier on me!

Note we did fly many times after that with no problems, but got to wonder just how dangerous a legal monthly periodical sold all over can be.

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Had a similar experience at O'Hare. The magazine was seen in my carry-on and the questions started. Nowadays, I just check a handgun or two and some ammo and pretty much get left alone. I also have-not flown since ... 2018, and that is even better.

 

[mike campbell]

WHO DOESN’T HAVE A NON-CCL PHOTO ID these days ???!!!

Probably nobody.

Most likely, several million undocumented aliens have a U.S. photo ID.

I wonder how many of them have CCW permits with their photo and fingerprint on it?

 

[ImDrRich]

I left it home.

But I am motivated by the fact that it would show that I am an ordinary person and I have a permit to carry.

Really? During training we were taught to never reveal we were carrying. That goes for wherever you live.

 

[CH4]

How many here have and carry a CCW badge, or knows someone who does? Be honest…

 

[mike campbell]

Really?

Wherever you live?

About 45 states allow open carry ...that's pretty revealing. Less than 40 allow concealed carry.

New York is one of only 4 states that limits or prohibits open carry. And even in NY it's OK to open carry while hunting and fishing.

 

[mike campbell]

How many here have and carry a CCW badge, or knows someone who does? Be honest…

Not me. But I have something more useful...a Dunkin Donuts gift card.

 

[SG-688]

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Had a similar experience at O'Hare. The magazine was seen in my carry-on and the questions started. Nowadays, I just check a handgun or two and some ammo and pretty much get left alone. I also have-not flown since ... 2018, and that is even better.

A corporate security manager at a large company whose name everyone would recognize asserted that an employee having a gun magazine lying on her desk or photographs of her with guns on her desk was an open threat to all other employees. "Don't mess with me; I have guns."

He hated guns; it took years to change his attitude. To my surprise, he moved from the city and eventually got a concealed carry permit.

 

[djohns6]

How many here have and carry a CCW badge, or knows someone who does? Be honest…

I used to work with a guy that had one . One of the other guys said that he saw him pumping gas and he was wearing a ballistic vest with his badge on it and some mirror sunglasses . This guy was a real piece of work .

 

[SG-688]

Several years ago, an Illinois appellate court ruled that seeing an FOID card in the driver's wallet on a traffic stop gave the police probable cause to search the car for guns.

Of course, the case came to the court because the man did have a gun in his car that was illegal in the jurisdiction --- Cook County.

 

[AJ]

How many here have and carry a CCW badge, or knows someone who does? Be honest…

For what purpose? Having a CCW gives you no authority. Is flashing a badge supposed to mean something? Could get you in trouble for "impersonating a police officer".

 

[ladder13]

I think he meant it as a joke.

 

[AJ]

I think he meant it as a joke.

I would hope so........

 

[robvious]

the grocery store wouldn't take my CCW Permit to buy beer....I would assume airport security would be a "little" stricter... especially in NYC..

 

[rosewood]

How many here have and carry a CCW badge, or knows someone who does? Be honest…

I was gifted one many years ago. Still laying in dresser where I put it back then.

Rosewood

 

[rosewood]

The requirements for a Weapons permit is much greater than any drivers license. It should be even more accepted. It is a government issued ID, that is usually what is requested anyway. But as they say, don't poke the bear.

Rosewood