In Virginia we are not Required to inform, however, Common Sense is the mode I use. I keep my hands on the wheel and visible, and If asked I will tell them I am carrying. Here, your CHP IS Tied to your license to drive and your plates. They know when they run your tags you Probably are carrying.
It depends on where your are really. Local LEO seem OK with CHP Holders, the cities, not so much I here.
It IS a catch 22! If you tell them right away, you may make them nervous, if you don't you may make them nervous?
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1911 Pistols can be additive! 
COTEP CBOB0586
No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
Thomas Jefferson
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” Thomas Jefferson
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