Couple of monday morning quarterbacking details;
There is no way an officer is going to respond to a dispatch for a MWAG call and be thinking "oh its just one of those patriotic and upstanding fine American citizens" without any other information.
We dont know all the facts dispatch may or may not have gotten, in my experience, Rescue Randy citizens driving by with a latte in one hand and cell phone in the other will call 911 thinking they are heros and actually wind up wasting public resources time and money and misrepresent what is truly happening. If I had a nickel for every unconcious seizure 911 call that was actually a homeless or indigent person sleeping on the sidewalk Id be a millionaire.
So what did happen?? was it a quick call by 1 or more upset people wanting to report a guy with a gun walking down the street. (In America? How dare he!!!) most likely.
So most likely the information related to the officer was a physical description and multiple calls for complaints of "man with a gun" he may or more likely not been given what exactly he was doing.
Couple of things of note, the officer may have read the Oceanside PD bulletin on handling UOC'rs, he may have remembered some or all of it, he may have never encountered a UOC"r yet. So this could have been the very first encounter of this nature for him. I noticed his demeanor and body language and voice tone didnt seem to me he was overly stressed or scared. He had a pretty good idea what this might be. His actions however did show something particulary interesting and tactical. He did not draw down or maintain a distance, he instead quickly closed the distance and got within close physical range to the UOC'r. With clear directions of what he did and didnt want the UOC'r to do and what he was going to perform while closing the distance. He wanted to make this a potential hand to hand physical altercation then a short range gun battle if for any reason it was the worst possible encounter. Thats experience, and an attempt to de-escalate the situation. He also started to say "There are alot of people.." then started another line of questioning, its tough to hear but its there, that to me is an indication he knew what was going on, this was a lawful citizen not some hoodlum or criminal type he was dealing with, maybe a gun advocate, but misconstrued by the John Q public, so he continued going thru his questions, most of which are pre programmed questions all officers ask. To control the situation, assess the individual, identify intent.
He obviously didnt remember all the particulars of 12031e, so grabbing the mags he more than likely didnt realize he couldnt do that. And after about 20 seconds or so of questions not being answered promptly he probably realized he should return the weapon and mags which he did, especially when no last name was coming forthwith and he is being recorded, thus the period of writing in his book, thats him thinking how do I save face and dont look like an idiot on youtube, and did I remember all the details of handling an E check correctly.
He mentions his 22 years in the Corp, more than once, and explains why he did the stop, because of the holidays and lots of people. He is proud of what he has done,and still does, he takes his job seriously and understands rights (mostly), freedom and liberty. He tried to make some sort of connection and show of understanding. For the most part, probably one of the good cops. Plus the east coast accent, probably NY origin, they tend to be mostly down to earth and grounded. (my father is 30 year retired NYPD).
This does not in anyway mean a UOC'r should drop there guard, surrender there rights freely, or give daming or possibly incriminating information. However, I would have no problem being friendly and cordial and neighborly with this particular officer. I would actually see it as an opportunity to teach/inform about the penal codes we all know so well and offer to give him feedback on his stop if he was wiling to take feedback.
Gotta remember people, we are doing something that is so alien to many people that we are sometimes percieved as "dangerous". Thats the propoganda and direction our country has gone for the past 60+ years ways of thinking are not going to change as quickly as we may like. For what it is worth, leaving the municipal code argument out of it, mostly positive encounter and more than likely a good cop.