I work late nights, tending bar. I get stopped quite often on my way home and almost every time I am stopped the trooper asks if I have a handgun or any other weapons on me, or if I have any weapons in my truck.Short of someone on here posting pics off of an officer's PC screen from their vehicle, the argument about cops knowing we have CCW permits will go on and on.
Supposedly, there is a NYS Court decision that prohibits LEO's from asking if you have handguns in your vehicle. And there is no requirement in New Yorkistan to tell an officer you are carrying in your vehicle when stopped (unlike here in the Carolina's, where we ARE required to immediately inform them if we are stopped by them). I have had officers in NYS who stopped me ask me things like "Do you have anything on you that I need to be aware of that could injure me?" which seems like a work around attempt to that Court decision.
But I do know for a fact that New Yorkistan discloses our CCW information to others, - specifically Canada, - that I have experienced. I lived in WNY for 60+ years, and frequently traveled into Canada over that time. And yet, somehow on the very first trip I took into Fort Erie shortly after I got my NY CCW, I was hit with a raft of gun questions at Canadian Customs unlike anything I had endured over the prior decades, including: Are you bringing any firearms in Canada? How many HANDGUNS do you own? WHY DO YOU FEEL THE NEED TO OWN HANDGUNS, MR. ______??? I haven't traveled into Canada recently. But every time since that happened to me after I had my NY CCW, I have been asked multiple questions if I am bringing any guns into Canada. And my answer is always the same: "ANY firearms I may own have been left in the US today, - just for you!" I am sad for the Canadians living under that tyrant Turdeau.