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...naw, he's just puttin' up with us, hopin' to get some useful info out of the stew...askin' a question here's like askin' it of the guys on the bench outside the barbershop...you're gonna have to do some sortin' and pickin'...

...I use Compound W when I get one of them...maybe we can dig something out later today...don't have time, now...

...here's the law http://legis.la.gov/lss/lss.asp?doc=112364" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ...he must either return the firearm or make an arrest...any reason he could lawfully seize it would result in an arrest...and the weapon would have to be logged into evidence to back up the arrest...

...seems that if it's happened, it'd be documented and screamed about on the net...even if no civil suit's been filed...I haven't seen a word about it...and the grabbing during Katrina in NOLA's all over the net...not saying it hasn't happened, just asking "Where's the Beef???"

...it is kind of hokie...no law that I'm aware of requires you to show ownership of a firearm in your possession...or allows them to routinely confiscate them if you can't...they must find that it's stolen or you've broken another law which enables them to confiscate it...I carried in La. for 20 years...open, concealed, in car...policed for almost 8 years...never heard of such a thing until the "magnifinet" a few months ago...sounds like another version of the "rap-ride" boogeyman...

...disagree...keep the Feds' fingers outa CHL...it'll cost us a lot more'n it'll ever help us...as we ought to have learned by now...

...I've heard that rumor about La....down in the Katrina-hit area...there are that caliber (.17) cops in most places...the way you stop 'em is to document and sue the pants off 'em in civil court, with all the media coverage you can rake up...that's the most time-honored method of forcing the governing authority to weed out/retrain as necessary...if they can't get an NCIC hit for stolen on it, they have no probable cause or legal reason to seize anything...
...having said that...I've yet to see documented cases of this happening on the highways...only seizures I've seen proven were during Katrina...so the same old plan works for me: do what's right, keep the law, expect LEO's to do the same, and so far it's worked perfectly in my years...

...if your instructor said it like you wrote it...it shows he doesn't know a lot about La. ...in La., they don't have counties, they have parishes...the LEOs of the parish are Sheriffs and Deputy Sheriffs...then there are state police and city police...not parish police...could be a scary rumor just kinda sneaked into his lesson...there was no law requiring you to carry proof of ownership on any items in your possession other than motor vehicles/boats...