I had a friend in the gunshop who was a customer I took a liking to because he was into AKs and shit like me. Nice black kid from Atlanta. He would drive all the way up to holly springs to shoot at our range because I shot the shit with him about choppers and red dots and just generally put him on to good products and training techniques etc. we kicked it off good and I helped him dress up his Draco. I noticed after a few trip he always traveled with it in its original box, unloaded, separated from ammo and mags. It bugged the shit outta me so I asked him one day why? And he said he didn’t think he could drive around with a loaded pistol in his car he didn’t have the license to carry and couldn’t have it out etc. that bullshit broke my heart. I sat and talked with him for an hour about castle law and the car being an extension of his home, also touching on the fact that down in his city they may perceive him For something he’s not because he’s driving a hooptie with a loaded Draco on the seat but I wanted him to be brave and flex that right because if I ride through his hood with a rifle out in the seat then i damn well want him riding the same way I do. Told him a decent way to handle being pulled over, just don’t do any crazy shit, know your rights be calm be educated on what you can do, and you may catch a taser, you may get wrongful cuffs, but you sure as fuck weren’t committing a crime and you’re a free man stand up for yourself. He was just soaking it in man it was a freedom he had be thirsty for a long time you could tell. I didn’t want him doing something he was uncomfortable with if he himself was unsafe, but he was willing to take risks if he knew he was legal And ok. He came back the next times with that chopper slung mag in his pocket box was left at home. Said I liberated his mind man. It was a beautiful thing to watch a self defender break past an oppressive misconception about gun ownership and travel and posture and God given self defense