ezracer
Certified Gun Nut
Gotta watch the spelling on that one!!
It is two different things. With the security company you get your guard card and with your CCW course add official sponsorship of the company and then can carry on those jobs and some wiggle room with to and from those jobs.
I know people who do both just to make sure they have the most coverage. Again this is what I've been told friends who do it, so they could be wrong.
What is funny with the people doing it through the businesses is that they often don't have proper retention holsters for the open carry. This is a terrible idea. The dude who stands outside bank of American in arbutus has a 38 in a leather holster that one dude just grabbed as a joke. Still walks around with it in that, didn't learn.
One of the very few things I miss about living in Silver Spring was the widespread availability of papusas.
So good.
I chuckled at a few of these posts, though HAH!.
In seriousness, though, could that have been Gecko45 in the wild?
Speaking of Fotays was at Walmart on Friday evening in Germantown. A rather large lady shopping was in a security costume gray and black wearing a CCW badge and a Glock 27 on a duty belt. I don’t think she was wearing the belt the correct way it was just under her chest. In a uber secure Fobus holster. She was clearly off duty but still carrying none the less…
What's a CCW badge?
... The guard I learned all of this from says that they are not allowed to draw their guns unless there is someone with a gun already pointed at them or a bank employee, and then they are supposed to issue verbal commands before shooting. He was trying to get a different job at the time we spoke - I hope he was successful.
What's a CCW badge?
If someone walked up to me asking a bunch of silly questions about my gun, I'd probably answer in some broken form a English/Spanish as well...and no I don't speak Spanish.