Hypothetical situation: You're a passenger in a car. Unbeknownst to you, the driver has a firearm in the glovebox. For some reason, he gets pulled over and the car gets searched. They find the firearm. Even though you deny it's yours, you both get cuffed and charged with concealing a weapon.
With the concealed carry permit, your charges are dropped as soon as you show it to the arresting officer. Without it, you face a potential visit to the jail and a legal fight on your hands to get the charges dropped.
I don't know if i buy that.
Aren't you still on the hook for failing to inform the officer you were carrying? And if you do things your way, doesn't getting released require admitting that you were carrying the gun and opening yourself up to explaining any shadiness related to said gun.
The simple fact is, holding a CCP gives you more rights than someone without one. Assuming everyone with a CCP is carrying, or even wants to carry a weapon, is a foolish view.
Interesting. I had never considered someone would get a concealed carry permit without intent to carry.