I've had a few occasions to give my paperwork to an officer. Two where people ran into me, and a few where they needed to tell me I was going too fast. I hand them my permit with my driver's license and tell them "here, I don't want you to be alarmed when this comes up on my driver's license report". And it does. In every case, I've received a "thank you". In two cases,the officer asked where I was carrying, and in two cases, where I was expecting, and deserving, a multi-point ticket, the officer handed my paperwork back to me with "have a nice day".
I started doing this back before "shall issue". I was stopped by a young officer. Gave him my paperwork, he went back to his car. A few minutes later he backed his car away from mine, he had called for backup. He had never seen CCW, or concealed weapon come up on a report before. His sergeant showed up, got out of the car with a smile on his face, walked up to my window. "Sir, do you have a concealed weapons permit?" Yes, I do. "Would you please show it to this young officer, he's never seen that report before?" Sure. The young officer was suitably embarrassed, so he gave me a ticket for 10 over, which I was doing. When he handed me the ticket he said "Mr. Jones, do you mind if I ask what you're carrying?" No, I don't mind. Combat Commander .45 with a J-frame backup. Big smile, "Nice!" and a thumbs-up from the officer.
My point is-put the officer at ease, you're not a bad guy, and they deal with enough of those as it is.





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