john-in-reno
Regular Member
Of all the times to not have my recorder going it had to be this time!!
I dropped my wife off at her work at about 6:50am this morning and she works close to the sparks marina.
I geocache and there where some caches around the marina so I decided to do a couple before going home, so i park in the south parking lot close to the freeway at around 7am and take my time as i have trouble walking to far without resting.
I get to one cache just past the dog area find it and head back to my car, total trip was less then or equal to half a mile one way and took me 1 hour and was passed by quite a few people.
I move my car just a short distance, but still in the park, get out to do another cache, and while I was looking for it, a park ranger (Old guy, no way to protect himself) in a 4 wheel atv stopped and told me that he has had calls about a MWAG and he also has the SPD on there way, I said no problem! and said as I was grabbing my phone "Sparks Ordnance was repealed in November 22 of 2010 and started to show him, but the old guy didn't want any part of that, He was right and I was wrong in his eyes!
Now the fun begins, SPD shows up to do there job and have no idea that the law has changed, the the first cop, proceeds to tell me that there was a law [FONT="]against[/FONT] being in the park with a gun and it is posted, and i told him that the law was repealed in November of 2010, and I have a copy on my smartphone (which was still in my hand), He asked me for my ID, which I refused to give and told him I would give him my name which i did even tho I know i did not need to do that at the time because I know there was no RAS, but in there minds there was.
He asked me several times and tried the whole "It will make things go a lot easier" routine and I told him i satisfied the requirements to identify myself by giving my name, Now he starts walking away to use the radio and his phone.
Cop # 2 ask if what I had around my neck was a fish-finder, and I started thinking why is he asking me that, I WAS NOT IN THE WATER!! LOL, and said No it was a GPS device, I was geocaching and had to explain to him what that was, cop #2 comes back and ask me for my birthday, and I asked he why he needed it, and I told him I have already ID'd myself buy giving my name, then he get back on the radio and says i refused to give my age and estimates my age to be 50 to 60 years old (not a bad guess)
at this point I remember I have a COP Recorder app on my phone and manage to turn it on at this point (time 8:42)
The I started talking to cop#2 about geocaching again and cop 3 comes over, and cop 2 tells cop 3 about ord 2445 and how that repealed the law about guns in the park and told him I have a pdf on my phone that showed that, cop # 3 asked if he could see it and was reading it, then cop 2 said he didnt know anything about this law and asked when did this happen, and I told him in 2007 the legislatures changed the law, and the only thing that the city's can regulate was the discharge of firearms.
about a min later cop#1 comes back and says were good to go, cop#3 hands me my phone and cope#1 tells me that there might be more calls until it becomes more common place, and then cop#1 said thank you for being cooperative!!!! I just started laughing in my mind. (time 8:46)
I dropped my wife off at her work at about 6:50am this morning and she works close to the sparks marina.
I geocache and there where some caches around the marina so I decided to do a couple before going home, so i park in the south parking lot close to the freeway at around 7am and take my time as i have trouble walking to far without resting.
I get to one cache just past the dog area find it and head back to my car, total trip was less then or equal to half a mile one way and took me 1 hour and was passed by quite a few people.
I move my car just a short distance, but still in the park, get out to do another cache, and while I was looking for it, a park ranger (Old guy, no way to protect himself) in a 4 wheel atv stopped and told me that he has had calls about a MWAG and he also has the SPD on there way, I said no problem! and said as I was grabbing my phone "Sparks Ordnance was repealed in November 22 of 2010 and started to show him, but the old guy didn't want any part of that, He was right and I was wrong in his eyes!
Now the fun begins, SPD shows up to do there job and have no idea that the law has changed, the the first cop, proceeds to tell me that there was a law [FONT="]against[/FONT] being in the park with a gun and it is posted, and i told him that the law was repealed in November of 2010, and I have a copy on my smartphone (which was still in my hand), He asked me for my ID, which I refused to give and told him I would give him my name which i did even tho I know i did not need to do that at the time because I know there was no RAS, but in there minds there was.
He asked me several times and tried the whole "It will make things go a lot easier" routine and I told him i satisfied the requirements to identify myself by giving my name, Now he starts walking away to use the radio and his phone.
Cop # 2 ask if what I had around my neck was a fish-finder, and I started thinking why is he asking me that, I WAS NOT IN THE WATER!! LOL, and said No it was a GPS device, I was geocaching and had to explain to him what that was, cop #2 comes back and ask me for my birthday, and I asked he why he needed it, and I told him I have already ID'd myself buy giving my name, then he get back on the radio and says i refused to give my age and estimates my age to be 50 to 60 years old (not a bad guess)
at this point I remember I have a COP Recorder app on my phone and manage to turn it on at this point (time 8:42)
The I started talking to cop#2 about geocaching again and cop 3 comes over, and cop 2 tells cop 3 about ord 2445 and how that repealed the law about guns in the park and told him I have a pdf on my phone that showed that, cop # 3 asked if he could see it and was reading it, then cop 2 said he didnt know anything about this law and asked when did this happen, and I told him in 2007 the legislatures changed the law, and the only thing that the city's can regulate was the discharge of firearms.
about a min later cop#1 comes back and says were good to go, cop#3 hands me my phone and cope#1 tells me that there might be more calls until it becomes more common place, and then cop#1 said thank you for being cooperative!!!! I just started laughing in my mind. (time 8:46)
