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At Big Town, a couple of years ago, pre-30.06 signage, I was told verbally "no loaded guns, no concealed . . ." etc.

In front of the cop doing the zip tieing, I dumped the mag and round out of my 1911 and proceeded to stow them in my pocket while he zip tied the gun.

Then, while handing me back my now "securely fastened" 1911, he told me that I wasn't allowed to have "that ammo" on me, so I pulled the round and mag back out and handed them to my wife, who stowed them in her purse. That seemed to satisfy the cop, and since he didn't specifically mention the two spare mags on my belt, neither did I.

BTW, when he handed the gun back to me he did so with the slide locked open. I hit the slide stop as I holstered up and only later noticed that that action had apparantly severed the zip tie . . .

I have often wondered what the reaction would have been if someone had noticed that I was carrying an "untied" gun.

I ave also gotten quite a kick out of watching dealers merrily cut the ties off their guns while handing them to people, and tieing them back up after they have been handed back.