Obviously, to stay on the right side of the law, you keep any knowledge that you have a gun hidden until/unless you actually use it in self defence. The logic is simple, if you don't actually shoot the attacker then there wasn't a threat to your life, and that makes pulling the gun, or even just showing it, an assault.
I've said it before, the law removes the option of showing a holstered firearm as a means to change the mind of a possible attacher before he/she takes specific action against the victim. It would be better if mear display of a holstered firearm, absent threatening words or actions, was not considered an assault.
But that is not the reality we live in, so don't try this and keep your possession of a gun to yourself.
I've said it before, the law removes the option of showing a holstered firearm as a means to change the mind of a possible attacher before he/she takes specific action against the victim. It would be better if mear display of a holstered firearm, absent threatening words or actions, was not considered an assault.
But that is not the reality we live in, so don't try this and keep your possession of a gun to yourself.