- Jan 12, 2012
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I really do not like the idea of people dicking around with loaded guns, taking them out of holsters, putting them into holsters, unchambering rounds, rechambering rounds, handing them back and forth on the side of the highway. If the officer insists, I will not resist him, but I really do not think it is a good idea.
It gets worse than that. Once upon a time, back in the Dark Ages, I had a traffic stop in which a clueless city cop (after I told the moron I was carrying) asked if I had any weapons. I emphasized that I had just told him I did. Then he wanted it, and received it just as it was--cocked and locked. He had no idea how to clear it, so he handed it back to me for the purpose (and in retrospect, I suppose officer safety was the justification?) and then started lecturing me that he didn't think that was safe and didn't like it. In preference to telling him that he doesn't have the sense God gave a brick and I don't give a f**k what he thinks or likes, I settled for telling him that John Browning was one of the most brilliant firearms designers in history and that's how he designed it to be carried (with the implied facepalm and declaration that the cop is a moron). As you could imagine, my reaction these days would likely be a bit different, but it still amuses me when I think about it that someone that pathetically stupid could get a job in law enforcement.