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by JALLEN
Sat May 04, 2013 11:15 am
Forum: 2013 Texas Legislative Session
Topic: Running Serial Numbers of weapons of CHL holders.
Replies: 76
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Re: Running Serial Numbers of weapons of CHL holders.

HK_USP_45 wrote:Mr. Allen, my diatribe was totally tongue-n-cheek. You really hit the nail on the head. PC is the missing ingredient. My opinion, there is no more PC to run the serial number on a weapon legally in your possession and with no direct involvement in the original reason for detention than it would be to check everything in your possession. If you were stopped for shooting out the car window, rudely displaying a weapon, murder, that is one thing. Now, keep in mind, I have never been infected by a doctorate in jurisprudence so I try to operate under the application of common sense. Once you enter a court room, all bets are off. And I never gave anyone a citation. They had to earn it the old fashion way.

Wheeewww! I'm glad that all those months I sat in classrooms being brainwashed in the study of law, and the dimming of my memory over all these years, the decades of exposure to night air, strong drink and wild women, hasn't been totally wasted. It's a relief!
by JALLEN
Fri May 03, 2013 11:42 pm
Forum: 2013 Texas Legislative Session
Topic: Running Serial Numbers of weapons of CHL holders.
Replies: 76
Views: 17441

Re: Running Serial Numbers of weapons of CHL holders.

HK_USP_45 wrote:

You have a laptop in your car. Why don't I run the serial number on that? Might be stolen. You have a Rolex watch on. Why not run the serial number on that? Why not ask to see all the money in your wallet to make sure none of it is counterfeit? Maybe run the serial number of your car radio. Ask to see the receipt for all the stuff you have in those Target bags in the back seat. Run all your credit cards.

Point is why would I single out one object in your possession over all others that have the same chance of being illegal in some respect or other? If it is doing you a favor to make sure your gun is not stolen, why not go all the way and run everything in your possession with a number in the name of customer service?
What happens to probable cause? My Rolex in plain view carries no suspicious circumstance to make anyone think it is stolen, or any other object, otherwise lawful, you might observe. Won't you have a hard time using that as evidence? "I saw this Rolex in plain view, on the wrist of this dignified, impeccably groomed and well-dressed older gentleman driving a late model Lexus. I wondered if it was stolen, and sure enough it was!"

I'm asking here since you seem to have a great deal of experience, and they never caught any of my clients. ;-)

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