Actually, I did that very same thing myself many moons ago when I was younger and on an evening delivery run. There were only four men advancing on my cornered vehicle rather than a dozen stated by Malcolm above, but same outcome…I turned on my car’s interior dome light, pulled out my gun, racked the slide (no, I didn’t have one in the chamber like I do nowadays) for them to see, and placed it on the dash while locking eyes with the one I perceived to be the Alpha. They turned around and walked away, and I drove away. No shots fired.

In the 80’s I watched my father brandish his firearm multiple times to back off some road rager.

I think his comment was intended sarcasm.

I wonder how close that was to the legal definition of “brandishing”? I haven’t taken a concealed carry course.

Sounds like things that never happened.

Yeah! Hard to imagine why anyone would even consider carrying in a known bad neighborhood.

Waterbury has some depressed areas but it’s not even a high-crime city. The officer was ridiculous and he knows it.