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ProShooter wrote:
We owe the police no courtesy on this. To declare so, to argue for it, takes it out of the realm of personalpreference and puts into the sphere of obligation.
ProShooter wrote:
You have also effectively waived your 4th Amendment protections for your gun--what's left of them that the government will recognize.If you are open carrying, now, your weapon is even more open to arbitrary temporary seizure "for officer safety" by an officer who lacks judgement or just wants to run serial numbers or doesn't want to bother exercising judgement, and just automatically seizes all guns. Please don't anyone botherto argue that notifying is not consent; we all know how impossible it will be tosue foran arbitrary and lacking-reasonableness seizure later in court. Same for a formal complaint.ravonaf wrote:Please tell me what right you have given up by informing the officer of the presence of your handgun?Why does common sense dictate that you give up your rights?
We owe the police no courtesy on this. To declare so, to argue for it, takes it out of the realm of personalpreference and puts into the sphere of obligation.