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Since you are not afforded any special rights being a BEA would you share some of your personal feelings and experiences regarding your use of firearms during your recovery experiences?
A: No.
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I am more or less trying to find out from your personal experiences do you tend to take your gun everywhere with you????? Like places a normal civilian wouldn't? Maybe lets say a mall ?
A: Carrying privileges, regardless of whether your state is open or concealed or mixed, is up to each JURISDICTION (not state). The laws of each area we operate in dictate to us whether or not we can legally carry. Why would you carry a gun into a mall ? Civilians are not protected by any laws from lawsuits, criminal charges, etc. WE ARE NOT COPS. If a shooting does occur somewhere, and you return "panic fire" and YOU shoot the wrong person, or injure an innocent third party via ricochet, shoot throughs, etc....then you're going to jail for a very, very long time.
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I think that some BEA's would find it difficult to leave the firearm in the car if you saw your mark walk in somewhere where you generally couldn't take it .
A) Why do you need a firearm to execute an apprehension ? This question, more than your others, scares the hell out of me. Bail skips are still citizens.....they are "innocent until proven guilty". Why are you going to brandish a fire arm at a fellow citizen who is not directly threatening your life or the lives of others at the time you apprehend them ?
A firearm is a tool..PERIOD. For our purposes it is strictly a DEFENSIVE tool, not a compliance tool. If you are that scared of this field or that co-dependent on a firearm, then I URGE you not to even get started. You have LIABILITY written all over you.
Carrying a LOADED INSTRUMENT OF DEATH is a tremendous responsibility and liability. Do you know that some BEA's have been arrested and sued, along with thier clients for merely touching thier firearms while interviewing occupants of a target house ? Cops are notorious for resting thier elbows on the butt of thier guns, or placing thier palms on thier butts or holsters. For cops, this is not an issue, but for BEA's it CAN BE A HUGE LIABILITY ISSUE. It's body language....what are you communicating to the person you are interviewing if you constantly touch your wepaon ? In some states its called terroristic threats, menacing, etc.
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And knowing that would leave me to believe that most BEA's would carry their weapon concealed on there body into a public building.
A) You're belief is incorrect. Again, depending on JURISDICTIONAL laws, most public buildings prohibit any weapons from thier premises. Schools, post offices, court houses, police departments, sheriff's dept's. hospitals, etc.
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Also I was watching the show "America's Hardest Bounty Hunters" is it typical practice to approach fugitives with guns drawn as seen on that show seeing how a regular civilian cannot do that?
A) NO. Again, in most jurisdictions, this action will get you arrested, jailed, and sued. Most instances, your fugitive will be surrounded by uninvolved third parties. I can guarantee you, if you were after me, regardless of my past, if I have not given you any reason to be in fear of your life and you brandished a firearm around my loved ones, placing them in harm's way and traumatizing them..especially small children, I WOULD PRESS CHARGES AGAINST YOU, SUE YOU, AND YOUR BONDING COMPANY. Then, once I was released from jail........
Obviously you have not taken any BEA courses. A reputable professonal course teaches that although the def has missed his/her court date, they are a commodity. Bonding companies are retail outlets. like most companies, bonding companies rely on REPEAT customers to stay in business. How long do you think your client would stay in business if you scared all of the customers away ?
