Positive Experience: Disarmed at a Providence Hospital Emergency Room

2yr old girl hit a live edge table pretty hard and had a bad cut on her eye that needed fixed up. Called our insurance consultation nurse on the phone and she said go to the ER.Hospital was Providence in Everett, Wahington State. Metal detector and a gaggle of security right inside the door. Found out later a few of them were retired police.I motioned to one of the security guards and whispered I had a concealed pistol. He responded with a polite "couldn't you have left it in the car?" to which I replied "I've never taken my daughter to the ER before, man."The guard remained polite and asked where it was, and I spoke that it was at 3 o'clock. He understood and removed my pistol from the holster, removed the magazine, and made sure he cleared the chambered round. Interestingly, this was in full view of anyone who may have been watching. No one cared. The admissions girls must've seen this a hundred times, I figure.They told me to get my daughter checked in (she was screaming and I was holding her this entire time) and then come back to formally log-in my firearm.After checking in my daughter with the hospital admittance staff, I returned to the security counter, showed them my ID and watched them log my handgun into a book that seemed to be for that purpose.(Fast-forward to my exit from the hospital. My daughter is happy, stitched up and holding a popsicle.)I mention to the guards that I checked-in a pistol earlier and they asked for my ID. Comparing it to the entry in the aforementioned log book, they then asked me to step into the security office.In the security office was a bank of lock boxes which seemed to exist for holding patient valuables or dangerous items. They opened one of them, removed my mag, extra round my now-zip-tied SIG Sauer.I thanked them for being professional and headed home. It was, overall, a positive interaction. via /r/CCW https://ift.tt/2w30MDc