Thursday I was leaving work and on my way home I got pulled over for doing 55 in a 35. I had my handgun laying on the seat next to me. The cop walks up to my door and says, "Oh I see a gun there", thats when I say to the officer "yes sir I am OCing and I am going to grab my car regristration out of the glove box now." Thats when he says to me, " Let me remove that pistol for my own safety". Not knowing if the cop had that right or not, I told him ok. So he took my gun unloaded the mag and went back to his patrol car. I am sure he ran the serial numbers to check to see if the gun was stolen. My question is could I have lawfully stopped the cop from removing my firearm? He turned out to be pretty damn cool in the end. He came back and said since you were so cool with me I only going to give you a ticket for "failure to obey a traffic sign-$30 fine". Then he asked me to open my trunk so he could leave me 9mm there. I popped the truck and layed the gun back there. All and all not a big deal but I wasnt aware a police officer had the right to remove my gun without cause for it....