Have you ever hid a weapon in a place that didn’t allow them?

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
-- Justice Janice Rogers Brown

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-rduckwor

February 22, 2026, 04:12 PM

V-Tail

Don't ask, don't tell.

February 22, 2026, 04:39 PM

ibanda

Yeah, one day at work I cleverly hid it in my pocket.

This was more than 5 years ago, I don't work there anymore but I'm still going to leave out some details.

The main building at work had a police station inside and metal detectors at the entrance, so I didn't carry at work. My office was a block away, but I didn't carry there because I had to go the main building everyday and I didn't want to screw up and forget about the metal detectors.

I was managing 25 people on day shift spread out over 100 acres. I hear over the radio someone has been shot. I look out the window and see people attending to someone laying in the street 60 yards away. I get on the radio and get all my people from a dozen locations into 4 locations behind locked doors, away from the scene.

I had forgotten about checking on one contractor, he wasn't on our radio network. He comes running into the office and says what the heck is going on SWAT team just kicked me out? I realize they don't know where the shooter is and they think he is still on property. I step 15 feet out the back door and get my .38 snub nose and pocket holster out of my car.

The guy I report to calls from the main building and says police want to talk to 3 of my guys they saw on video near the crime scene before the incident. It was their workplace and they were supposed to be there. I gather them up and we meetup outside the main building.

We get there and the cavalry have arrived on the street in front of the main building. I recognize the police Lt., he knows my name and who I am, and a few officers I have been working around for years. I also see another 50 officers in front of me and maybe 60 responding vehicles, city police, SWAT, bomb squad, sheriff deputies, FBI, ATF, I mean EVERYBODY.

I check in and police briefly pat down 1st guy and put him in the back seat of a squad car. 2nd guy pat down put in another squad car, car 3rd guy the same. But now I'm now sweating bullets as I have no idea how these 50 officers from various departments are going to respond and I may be face down on the concrete in 5 seconds. Officer reaches to tap my pockets with the back of his hand, and literally at the last second decides not to. He puts me in the back of a 4th squad car. I'm thanking the good lord above I don't have to explain to everyone why I have a pistol in my pocket! I mean it made sense to me, there was a murderer on the loose, but that would have been complicated to untangle. We eventually gave statements to the officers and went back to the office.

Bad guy was a disgruntled employee that murdered his boss. Then bad guy shot himself. It took about 4 hours to find the bad guy's body and at that point everyone started to calm down a bit.

February 22, 2026, 05:28 PM

400m

February 22, 2026, 05:48 PM

bordeth

you don't kiss and tell, bro.

February 22, 2026, 05:51 PM

ArtieS

Well, if you haven't you really haven't lived.

February 22, 2026, 05:51 PM

lyman

concealed is concealed

February 22, 2026, 06:00 PM

wishfull thinker

quote:
Originally posted by lyman:
concealed is concealed

Nah; concealed is in the mind of the concealer. Just go to a mall.

February 22, 2026, 07:26 PM

gjgalligan

quote:
Originally posted by parabellum:
Anything can be a weapon. I once saw a man get his skull busted with a grilled cheese sandwich.

Must have been a little over cooked.

February 22, 2026, 07:56 PM

Lucnik

Yes. Carried a Beretta 950 BS in my back pocket for many years before swapping to a Taurus 85 in a fanny pack holster. I mostly worked by myself doing leak survey work in the natural gas industry. Never had to draw or use either one, but sometimes I was sure glad I had it.

February 22, 2026, 08:05 PM

MikeinNC

You’d be amazed what you can carry about in a small USPS priority box (did you know a g19 will fit in one? I didn’t? Amazing ain’t it?)

February 22, 2026, 08:28 PM

Paten

We can't have weapons at work but we have boxcutters. Does that count?

February 22, 2026, 08:45 PM

darthfuster

Back in the day when we could go to meet our family at the gate, but had to pass through a metal detector, I remembered I had an empty Beretta Bobcat mag in my pocket. Serendipitously there was a potted plant nearby with that fake dirt fuzz in it. Too late to run back to the car for fear of missing the deplaning, I checked to see if anyone was around and hid the mag under the dirt in the pot. Went through the metal detector, made it to the gate, reunited with the youthful Mrs DF and casually walked back toward the parking garage. Mrs DF seemed curious when I paused at the potted fake tree and retrieved the mag. She rolleyed me and continued to the car. Hey, at least it was an empty mag.