Oldfeller--FSO
Serious Thumper ModSquad
Offline
Hobby is now "concentrated neuropany"
Posts: 12673
Fayetteville, NC
Gender:
|
Carrying guns to scoot and shoots
Don't laugh -- and remember to put your guns out in the open inside your locked trunk area if you have one, or inside a locked case if you lack a trunk space to lock them up inside. If you have a trunk, you don't need padlocked case as the trunk itself locks.
Do not throw a blanket over the guns or wrap them in blankets if they are inside a common space of the car -- this makes it a concealed carry item and upsets the police greatly.
Keep the ammo stored separately (in a different part of the car, in-accessible relative to the guns). A locked suitcase works good for that, or a tool box if your truck has one.
When approached by a cop, put hands 10:00 & 2:00 on the steering wheel in plain sight and politely tell the officer that you have rifles stored in the car and where they are (he'll ask where, so tell him but then be firm that he has no right to search your trunk). If he asks where the ammo is, tell him where it is but be firm that he has no right to search that part of the car either.
A traffic stop gives him no right to search areas not in plain sight, unless you are dumb enough to give him permission. Don't do it, as highway patrol people are especially bad about stacking up a ton of little violations if given permission to go looking for them.
With all the shootings lately cops are VERY concerned about people going from A to B carrying weapons. Be very polite, but firm --- no searching your car. If they insist on searching anyway, ask what gives them reasonable cause to do so and do not refute what they say as you ARE going to court now and YOU WILL NEED A DEFENSE LAWYER . It is time to ask for your lawyer as you disagree that they have any probable cause and then SHUT UP TOTALLY.
Faced with a dubious car search of a knowledgeable, lawyered up traffic stop, most cops will give up, write you the ticket and let you go.
Unless you did something to give them probable cause, that is -- so drive somewhat carefully and don't do anything stupid.
You are living in the Obama Age -- be smart about it.
|