Saving a few bucks and some time are great, most of the time, but, unless you are an attorney, you probably don't know all the intricacies of your state and local laws with regard to when you can and cannot draw that handgun.
I am a strong proponent of getting trained where you are going to carry. A ten minute talk from a state cop at your training class may save you lots of court costs at a later date when you thought you were doing the right thing.
There have been multiple stories in the news of late, regarding this . . . a man with a CCW driving down the street and seeing someone breaking into cars . . . he stops, draws his weapon on the guy and holds him for the cops to arrive - and is arrested for pointing his gun and someone; a man hearing noise at his neighbor's home, who grabs his gun and holds a burglar at gunpoint until the police arrive, only to be arrested for pointing a gun at someone. These seem like reasonable things to do, but laws vary, and laws are not always written with reason and common sense as their basis.
