Because then when a cop sees it he would grab his gun & shoot you.
Self defense, he was afraid you were going to go postal and shoot him because of road rage or something.
Because you didn't have a gun, you didn't inform and the cop didn't KNOW you didn't have a gun but thought you might and might draw and shoot him.
Cops need to know this information because of all the cops being killed in states that don't tell them.
The DL/CPL combo is a rediculous idea.
Kansas and Missouri did this in the past but they no longer do so. No jurisdiction in the U.S. does this.
It would be nice if the SOS could print out CPL's that look identical to a DL and mail those out as licenses. That would be better since then they could be carried as a stand alone document instead of being required to carry a secondary ID with a CPL.
Michigan used to put an address on a CPL and you only needed to carry that, but no thanks to MCRGO in 2003, that changed... And more states have been slowly adopting that nonsense.
You may see it that way as your LEO and see things from a different perspective.... Myself I don't want what is no one else's business becoming their business.... I already have to carry 4 pieces of ID with me just to walk on board ship one more piece of ID will not break my back to carry....
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I guess if it came down to it, I would be perfectly happy with a CPL that also doubles as a driver's license... but I would hate a driver's license that also had CPL info on it. My reasons are all those listed by everybody.
I'd still carry both cards, because anybody that NEEDS to see a CPL would probably also need to see a DL. But not the other way around.
Any way that might happen?