If they don’t ask.. I don’t tell.. I have seen too many scream for help or go nuts by a someone being honest…In my Jeep I have two under seat gun safes..I place the gun in and lock it.. a passenger, of mine, will do the same thing….If the first question they ask you is “ do you have a gun in the car?”.. that is a violation of your fifth amendment rights… you do not have to answer any incriminating question.. that garbage about putting the gun where someone can see it would get you arrested, several years ago… especially with the old law that we had an Alabama.. when the gun crossed the plane into a vehicle. It was considered a “concealed weapon” at that time… I have actually walked up to a car and someone handed me their pistol (trying to be honest)… which I have given them a good counseling about afterwards..
If they ask to search my car… I ask “can I go search your house?”… NEVER GIVE CONSENT TO SEARCH!!…
FWIW… unfortunately, a lot of police officers hate anybody “but police officers”, owning and carrying firearms…And they make it their main mission to get guns of of your hands… now that’s not all of them!… some are very pro-gun like me, but they are a few and far between..