🚀 go-pugleaf

While we're on the subject of carry firearms in public,
I'll add my 2 cents.  When I lived in Minneapolis,
I was on my way from my house to my car with my
.22 rifle encased, i.e., "a non-transparent material
covering and enclosing the entire weapon."
I was stopped by the PD.  The cops hassled me, took my
rifle, made me wait for them to run a check via the 
NCIC network and then said, "Well, you don't see anyone
else carrying a rifle around, do you?"

Sure, they did not have "probable cause" to stop me.
Should I have filed a civil rights complaint?
And don't even think about what might have happened
to me had I been in New York City!

So, just because one owns a gun, many cops feel that
you are already a suspect or "should be taught a 
lesson."

Jon Kaplowitz