You know if you think about it all a law enforcement officer needs in proable cause and a dishonest one could just come up with something.
I have a very good friend(lets call him Mr.X) who lives in Baltimore he had a not so good day once. While stopped at a carwash a man came walking over from the rear of Mr.X truck(S-10). Mr.X happened to be standing beside his open drivers side door when he noticed that the man was bent over and had a knife in his hand. Seeing that this guy was clearly about to at the least attempt to rob him Mr.X reached in back of the bench seat and pulled out and aimed his .22 caliber semi-auto(i dont know the model or make)rifle at the the mans neck at about the same point the man pressed the knife close to Mr.X stomach.
Unknown to the attacker the .22 was not loaded. Mr.X had been out zeroing the scope before stopping at the carwash and of course properly cleared the weapon and placed the magazines inside his glovebox along with the bullets.(Mexican Stand Off!!!) Clearly Mr.X had to bluff the knife man and hope that he did not see that the weapon had no magazine.
Mr.X told the knife man to step away and place his knife on the ground or be shot.(he was already leaning away at bit but still held the knife in a therating manner) Knife man claimed the gun was not loaded Mr.X said it was and advised knife man that finding out if it was or not was not a viable option if knife man desired to live.(note orginal language of encounter has been omitted)Anyway after a few tense moments Mr.X got the man to place his knife on the ground after this knifeless man ran away.
So Mr.X placed his .22 rifle back behind the bench seat. He did not call the cops figuring that they knife man learned that his life style might not be so wise after all. What Mr.X did not know at the time was that a woman near by saw this Mexican Standoff and belived Mr.X to be the robber not the victim.a few minutes later two BPD walked over to Mr.X asking him if he had seen anything "strange" lately Mr.X said "no just that a man pulled a knife on me and I stopped him and he ran away".(realizing that this was why they where there.)
The BPD advised that Mr.X fit the description of a reported armed robber (the dip**** woman calling in) and they did the "you are not under arrest but we will restarin you for our safety"(in case you dont know if you refuse you WILL be arrested) and went through his truck. They NEVER asked if there was anything inside his truck before searching it. Of course they found the .22 cal rifle,magazines, and bullets resulting in the Sgt. saying "oh what do we have here?" Sgt.cop kept searching Mr.X truck while lower ranking cop talked to Mr.X(he belived Mr.X to be the victim of a crime not the perp) Good cop went over and talked to Sgt.cop and came back to Mr.X and advised him that he had told Sgt. that he belived Mr.X was not the perp and that the only thing they could do is get him on the imporperly stored firearm. Sgt.Cop did not like this and came over to Mr.X and said "You must be a ****ing idiot." Mr.X(he is a little crazy and never backs down form a fight) said "Why am I stupid that guy pulled a knife on me I have the right to defend myself and I did."
Sgt. said "You are lying and you robbed someone and now you are going to jail." Mr.X again told the entire story and the reason he had the gun inside his truck in the first place and admitted that he should not have stored it that way but also that had he not have sgt. would be here for the murder of Mr.X. At this point though good cop and several civilans who had seen what happened where presentsgt.dick pulled Mr.X up by the collar and said "I will break your ****ing neck." Mr.X said "Do it then in front of all these people."Anyway they locked Mr.X up even though good cop did not think he should have been sgt. made it so.
Anyway Mr.X got saved by good cop who had written a report about the things sgt.dick had done to Mr.X and the judge ruled that Mr.X in fact did nothing wrong beyond the improperly stored firearm. But damn it could have been much worse for Mr.X.
Personaly I dont commit crimes but I do not trust law enforcement their goal is to arrest anyone and everyone just keep that in mind.It is their word aginst yours and unless you get very lucky like Mr.X did you are screwed.I am not saying all cops are bad you just have no way of knowing when you are dealing with one who has integrity or lacks it.
You guys fail to think in a guerrilla warfare fasion you dont want all your guns at your house you want a weapons cashe in a place they wont find it think about it.You guys fear the goverment someday do this or that you wont last long with all your guns and no fighters with you that is why you need the cashe in a place you dont own.
Just for that I bet someone is gonna be coming to my house now.
Bring it I will get Sun Zu on their ass.
By the way I do own firearms(legaly) and have never nor will I ever be a member of the NRA.The same can be said for every person that I know who owns firearms including MR.X.If you want be 100% free to own any weapon you want move to Somalia or a simular central goverment lacking nation of course then you wont last long as the milita in this type of place will simplty kill you but you will get to shoot that fully auto M-16 and maybe kill one or two of them before they kill you.
And with all the civil wars and drugs in Central and South America there ahs got to be a ****load of illegal stockpiled weapons down there dude the crimnals there well outgun the cops I saw a documentary on the slums of Rio de Janerio these guys had M-16 CAR-15 AK-47s andeven one of them had a CAR-15 with an M203 the cops just had M-16 CAR-15 AR-70 and a single MG21 but nothing like an M203 and they mainly had just pistols while every single slum gang member had an automatic weapon. I am going to say it is a very safe bet that the overwhelming majority of the guns being used in Mexico are from south of thier border not north of it.