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Mike1951 wrote:

Under "TYPE OF SEARCH" he did not check the box for CONSENT, but he did check the box for INVENTORY. I take this to mean that he searched some of the vehicle's inventory, namely my weapons. This looks to me as if he thought he did not need my consent, since he didn't check that box. Else I am misinterpreting this form.

I was under the impression that 'inventory' was only done incidental to arrest.

That's all part of the state mandated demographic tracking that is an utter waste of time. We have to log a number of things like reason for stop, action taken (warning, cite, arrest), race, gender, city residency (y/n), and if you search. If you do search, you have to log why, and if you find contraband. There is also some noise about juvenile curfew violations and their age. I do this through the computer, and the violator never sees it.

Somehow, somwhere, there was someone that thought this would combat racial profiling...so they legislated it.


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J.R.@A&M wrote:

Purplehood wrote:Can an LEO do that? Isn't that an illegal search if you refuse? (though you obviously did not refuse)

I'm not sure. I knew he had the general authority to disarm me. Once in possession of your firearm, I don't see anything to stop them from running the serial number or whatever. I had just never heard this stated before. Does that then put you at more risk if you buy a gun from a pawn shop not knowing how it got there?

Nope - pawn shops, by law, are required to run their pawn tickets through the local PD. The newest detective or two usually gets pawn ticket duty. All the new pawn tickets are run through TCIC/NCIC database by at least the serial number, if not an owner inscribed mark (have your DL # put on valuable property, like that new plasma TV).


I would consider running your SN of your guns through TCIC/NCIC a search, and I would decline. If he asked to disarm me I would allow him to (if I was only a CHL holder), and tell him that I do not allow him to run my guns to see if their stolen. It seems like an utter waste of time for the officer anyway...he would have no reasonable suspicion that the guns are stolen.