The alleged conflict only arises when you are breaking the law. You agreed to disclose in order to not be in violation illegally carrying a concealed weapon. If you don't disclose, the permit does not protect you or is a seperate crime.
I guess you should determine the reletive punishments and determine your correct course of action. However, I question the wisdom of giving such a permit to a person who contemplates problems dealing responsibly with weapons.
It appears you post quite often here and are a senior member, so I would like to know, are you a practicing attorney in criminal law or is this just your educated opinion? Or both?
I don't believe your argument of "questioning the wisdom of giving such a permit to [such] a person" holds up if you really analyze it. You seem very intelligent so we will look at this intelligently. The permit that they issue is not what allows a person to carry a weapon concealed, rather it is what allows them to carry it legally and while being registered with the local Sheriff. If someone wants to carry concealed a weapon, they can just as easily do it without a permit as they can with a permit.
I also completely disagree with your premise that the issue at hand is "contemplat[ing] problems dealing responsibly with weapons" because the mere fact that this person legally obtained a permit means they strongly desire to obey the law or they would not have gone through the training, fingerprinting, application and payments associated with obtaining a CCW permit. Now most likely a person who has obtained a permit will not ever carry anywhere the state statute says they cannot legally carry. However, NC statutes do not only outlaw places where carrying would typically be considered by a reasonable person to be "irresponsible to carry in", rather many places (such as places where alcohol is served [yes even if the permit holder is not consuming], places where admission is charged [movie theaters?, baseball games?] etc...) are just named because of specific special interests and lobbyists or named because of the lack of thought processes used by the legislators at the time of drafting the bill.
After all of that, the question came down to if a person was (intentionally or UNintentionally [because it is such a natural and instinctual way of life for those wishing to protect their lives for the people who do carry]) to carry a weapon concealed into one of the previously named places, and an officer was to approach them about another issue at hand. At that point (whether you agree with this person or not) would the CCW permit holder not be Constitutionally protected from telling the officer that they are carrying a weapon on them (obviously 5th amend)? Likely the permit holder would HAVE to tell them he has a CCW permit (at that point not self-incriminating, not breaking 5th amendment), but if he wishes to enact his Constitutional right to not self-incriminate would he
(a.) stop mid sentence after saying he does have a CCW permit?
(b.) tell the officer explicitly he is NOT carrying? (probably its own crime for sure)?
(c.) combination: tell the officer only that he does have a CCW permit, and if asked by the officer if you have a weapon on you just say nothing (does officer then have the right to search him?) or then explicitly say no (now is it a crime?)?
How is state law somehow seeming to over arch the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution here? Please advise respectfully and as completely as possible with more facts and case law rather than opinions. Thanks!
This is not meant to be mischievous or law breaking by this person, but would like to hear Police officer's opinion of this as well as the Lawyer's legal analysis.