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Declaration when not carrying
DaveB:
I've decided I will not declare unless I am carrying. The law states that I declare while carrying and I will obey the law.
I refuse to be treated as a criminal for declaring I am not carrying. I can't see that happening in Nebraska, but if it does, it will be on video as I have now gone to that for all contact. Trust begins with the cops in a situation with me as I am not a criminal, and unless when they stop me and the car is reported stolen, I am still not a criminal or a threat to them. All they have to do is ask if I am carrying and I will answer the question. I trust less people in this world every day, and I cannot see it getting any better with so many wanting to take everything you have one way or another. Hence, the reason I carry.
farmerbob:
After giving this more laws or less laws more thought, I can see I was wrong.
We shouldn't need more laws to give us the rights we already have. We just need to get rid of the laws that are suppressing our rights.
00BUCK:
A little over a year ago I got pulled over for speeding on Pacific St in Omaha. I wasn't carrying and didn't inform the officer. He never asked and the contact for all intents and purposes was good - except for getting a ticket. That's how it should be. I don't offer any more info than I am legally obligated to.
shovelhead69:
Sound's like a lot of folk are scared of police contact on here. So you declare to be "not carrying" even though you have no legal obligation to do so, for fear of the police officer's reaction? Seem's we have a police state mind set running rampant and that is the true issue at hand.
Bucket:
--- Quote from: shovelhead69 on March 02, 2014, 10:55:43 AM ---Sound's like a lot of folk are scared of police contact on here. So you declare to be "not carrying" even though you have no legal obligation to do so, for fear of the police officer's reaction? Seem's we have a police state mind set running rampant and that is the true issue at hand.
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I wouldn't argue with you, but I'm not looking to be a test case, martyr, or role model. If I get pulled over and I'm not carrying, it costs me nothing to tell him right up front and diffuse a situation and maybe create some sort of connection with the cop (as most of them are gun owners themselves). I wouldn't call it an essential point of liberty since he has access to my permit records and would be fully within his authority to pull me out of the car and pat me down for his own safety.
Until there is more general acceptance and clear limits on police conduct with regard to citizens gun rights, I'm taking the path that's going to get me back on the road soonest without pissing off the cop who pulled me over.
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