OCintheBurg
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I have looked all over VA Code and Lynchburg City laws and can find nowhere where an officer has the right to disarm me or even ask for "papers please, comrade".
In a situation that doesn't involve traffic (I found that thread) do I have to disarm for an officer?
I have done so before only because one officer had his hand on his gun and another with one on his taser and I was told they "weren't playing". I was two steps off of private property in which I was part-owner and in the street looking to see why there were headlights (the LEO's) down a dead-end road.
When I got my gun back it had been disassembled and the base pin twisted around so that I was afraid I would have to take it to a gun-smith to get it back right. I finally got it on my own, but I'm not in the way of having a ham-handed LEO toy around with my guns and possibly damage them.
Beyond that I feel we should stand up for the rights we have and not allow them to be eroded by erroneous custom.
I have looked all over VA Code and Lynchburg City laws and can find nowhere where an officer has the right to disarm me or even ask for "papers please, comrade".
In a situation that doesn't involve traffic (I found that thread) do I have to disarm for an officer?
I have done so before only because one officer had his hand on his gun and another with one on his taser and I was told they "weren't playing". I was two steps off of private property in which I was part-owner and in the street looking to see why there were headlights (the LEO's) down a dead-end road.
When I got my gun back it had been disassembled and the base pin twisted around so that I was afraid I would have to take it to a gun-smith to get it back right. I finally got it on my own, but I'm not in the way of having a ham-handed LEO toy around with my guns and possibly damage them.
Beyond that I feel we should stand up for the rights we have and not allow them to be eroded by erroneous custom.