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dihappy wrote:

CHL/LEO wrote:

Then it would no longer be in your possession, custody, or control, or not a potential threat to the officer.

Not true- courts have ruled that if it was within reach while you were in the vehicle, then it still can be searched. The reason being is that once the LEOs allow you back into the car then you would have access to the weapon and could thus engage the officer.

And he WOULDNT be in danger when he gives it back to you?

Hogwash!

Well, I've seen the stories about how the firearms are unloaded, dissassembled, magazines unloaded, and at the conclusion of the stop, the citizen is instructed not to touch or do anything with the firearm till they leave...

Considering the volitility of this issue, the sources and stories due tend to divide and conquer us sometimes...

I sleep pretty good at night knowing my disposition and attitude if I am stopped, will not give any Law Enforcement officer any reason to think they need to do anything but write the citation...

dac1842 wrote:AS A FORMER LEO I ALWAYS BELIEVED IN GUN CONTROL, THAT BEING I AM IN CONTROL OF ALL GUNS PRESENT. I HAVE A CHL, I WOULD NOT BE OFFENDED IF AN OFFICER DISARMED ME, I WOULD BE DISAPPOINTED IF HE DIDN'T. HIS SAFETY COMES FIRST AND FOREMOST, I AM THE LEAST LIKELY PERSON ON THE PLANET TO BE A THREAT TO AN LEO, BUT HE DOES NOT KNOW THAT. HE HAS TO TAKE MEASURES TO ENSURE THAT HE GOES HOME TO HIS FAMILY EACH NIGHT. REMEMBER THIS, BUNDY WAS NOT KNOWN TO BE A THE NATIONS WORST SERIAL KILLER FOR YEARS.

I take measures to ensure I go home each night as well...The section in the code "gives" authority to do so, but only under circumstances where it is reasonably determined that doing so will ensure the safety of the officer, and persons in the area...NOT under any presumed personal or department policy...

So if you are ok with it, and want to be disarmed, thats your position, not one that anyone I know here would personally accept lightly...Sure, it won't be fought out on the street, but it will be handled in a more reasonable manner and time, befitting our reasonable dispositions...

So...If you don't mind me asking, do you still believe in "gun-control"???