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I was passing through Pima PD's revenue zone on Highway 70 last night and some truck blew by me and not long later a white SUV started to blow by me and then stopped hard and matched my speed in my blind spot. I was like WTF is this guy's problem?
He slowed way down and matched my speed ten carlengths or so back (I was going the speed limit the whole time). About the time I was getting back into farmland the red and blue lights in the SUV came on. My reaction: ?????
So the guy comes up, tells me it's for a license plate light out. I told him I had a pistol, pointed to it, asked him what he wanted to do. He had me step out and hang by his car while he ran my license. We sat and talked about guns, law enforcement, cars, all that while waiting for the all clear on my ID. He even thanked me for telling him I had the gun and told me he wishes he had a 1911.
All clear, I told him I had a spare bulb and he kept his lights on and hung around to make sure I had enough light to change the bulb, left when he saw I had a flashlight.
Never got in my car, touched my gun, or asked me why I had one. Didn't search me. He was very friendly and personable. A true public servant.
If this were New Mexico they would have had me put my hands on their hood, barked orders at me, pat me down, took the gun, ran the serial, and made a big production of it, and then left without so much as smiling and leave my gun half assembled in my trunk. Thanking you for telling them? Nope. They feel like you owe it to them (legally you don't).
After all NM DPS is legally obligated to not confiscate the guns, but they aren't happy about it and like to make life a pain and treat you like a criminal. I've had several of those bastards tell me "We don't like it when people have guns." Honestly if that's their attitude, I don't like them having guns either.
Nice to see Arizona LEOs treat you right and respect your rights. I don't really like the 30 MPH speed limit in the town, but I'm much happier to respect that knowing they respect my right to keep and bear.
I was passing through Pima PD's revenue zone on Highway 70 last night and some truck blew by me and not long later a white SUV started to blow by me and then stopped hard and matched my speed in my blind spot. I was like WTF is this guy's problem?
He slowed way down and matched my speed ten carlengths or so back (I was going the speed limit the whole time). About the time I was getting back into farmland the red and blue lights in the SUV came on. My reaction: ?????
So the guy comes up, tells me it's for a license plate light out. I told him I had a pistol, pointed to it, asked him what he wanted to do. He had me step out and hang by his car while he ran my license. We sat and talked about guns, law enforcement, cars, all that while waiting for the all clear on my ID. He even thanked me for telling him I had the gun and told me he wishes he had a 1911.
All clear, I told him I had a spare bulb and he kept his lights on and hung around to make sure I had enough light to change the bulb, left when he saw I had a flashlight.
Never got in my car, touched my gun, or asked me why I had one. Didn't search me. He was very friendly and personable. A true public servant.
If this were New Mexico they would have had me put my hands on their hood, barked orders at me, pat me down, took the gun, ran the serial, and made a big production of it, and then left without so much as smiling and leave my gun half assembled in my trunk. Thanking you for telling them? Nope. They feel like you owe it to them (legally you don't).
After all NM DPS is legally obligated to not confiscate the guns, but they aren't happy about it and like to make life a pain and treat you like a criminal. I've had several of those bastards tell me "We don't like it when people have guns." Honestly if that's their attitude, I don't like them having guns either.
Nice to see Arizona LEOs treat you right and respect your rights. I don't really like the 30 MPH speed limit in the town, but I'm much happier to respect that knowing they respect my right to keep and bear.
