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<blockquote data-quote="bettingpython" data-source="post: 1391036" data-attributes="member: 4307"><p>Because I could, that and prior to the passage of the CCW law I was already carrying. </p><p></p><p>I worked for a wholesaler that delivered tobacco products and then later in the bar business before OK passed CCW. </p><p></p><p>I had delivery routes and stops no other driver would take because I was low man on the totem pole for a long time. After one driver was beaten and robbed, 3 weeks later a second driver was actually kidnapped and duct taped in the back of his van on the same route he was missing for 2 days before the police found him. The route was handed to me north tulsa in some unsavory areas and most of the customers screwed up and didn't pay their bills so we had to collect for the deliveries and several of those had to be cash since thay had written bad checks too many times. The amount of cash (some days I had 6 or 7 grand in my bag) along with the fact that I had cases of cigarettes in the truck made me a pretty big target. </p><p></p><p>After the first attempted robbery that I had to fend off I drove back to the warehouse parked the van handed the owner the keys and told him he had 3 options, let me continue working in the warehouse, let me go home get my pistol and carry a gun on my route. or if he wouldn't let me go back to work in the warehouse or carry a gun he was going to have to find another driver because I was quitting on the spot. He chose to let me start carrying. </p><p></p><p>I never had to use my pistol, pulled it once though, and I had to fend of several robbery attempts. I would have just given them the companies cash and products but thefts from tobacco deliviries had a reputation of including some pretty severe bodily harm. </p><p></p><p>I then went to work in the bar business in 94 and routinely carried around several thousand dollars on a daily basis. I kept carrying since I was an obvious target. When the Self defense act passed I immediately picked up a packet took my class and applied for my permit.</p><p></p><p>BTW prior to the passage of the SDA TPD and TCSO were fairly sympathetic to people in high risk job's carrying a firearm I had more than one encounter with them while working as a route driver after fighting off a attempted robbery and the one time I did pull my pistol I was never charged nor was my pistol ever confiscated.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bettingpython, post: 1391036, member: 4307"] Because I could, that and prior to the passage of the CCW law I was already carrying. I worked for a wholesaler that delivered tobacco products and then later in the bar business before OK passed CCW. I had delivery routes and stops no other driver would take because I was low man on the totem pole for a long time. After one driver was beaten and robbed, 3 weeks later a second driver was actually kidnapped and duct taped in the back of his van on the same route he was missing for 2 days before the police found him. The route was handed to me north tulsa in some unsavory areas and most of the customers screwed up and didn't pay their bills so we had to collect for the deliveries and several of those had to be cash since thay had written bad checks too many times. The amount of cash (some days I had 6 or 7 grand in my bag) along with the fact that I had cases of cigarettes in the truck made me a pretty big target. After the first attempted robbery that I had to fend off I drove back to the warehouse parked the van handed the owner the keys and told him he had 3 options, let me continue working in the warehouse, let me go home get my pistol and carry a gun on my route. or if he wouldn't let me go back to work in the warehouse or carry a gun he was going to have to find another driver because I was quitting on the spot. He chose to let me start carrying. I never had to use my pistol, pulled it once though, and I had to fend of several robbery attempts. I would have just given them the companies cash and products but thefts from tobacco deliviries had a reputation of including some pretty severe bodily harm. I then went to work in the bar business in 94 and routinely carried around several thousand dollars on a daily basis. I kept carrying since I was an obvious target. When the Self defense act passed I immediately picked up a packet took my class and applied for my permit. BTW prior to the passage of the SDA TPD and TCSO were fairly sympathetic to people in high risk job's carrying a firearm I had more than one encounter with them while working as a route driver after fighting off a attempted robbery and the one time I did pull my pistol I was never charged nor was my pistol ever confiscated. [/QUOTE]
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