one has a tact shotgun and it pointing the flashlight all around the property.
What are you going to do?
A guy walks down the street with a gun in his hand. What's your first thought on that?
but I can honestly say I've never felt the desire to play with my gun and flashlight outside my house at 11:00pm since I was about 7 years old.
But back to the original question if you weren't arrested then it isn't illegal. I have never known a LEO to let someone off on that type of call just because they thought they had a fancy gun. Please rephrase your question into something intelligent so we can answer it without sounding stupid. :biggrin:
See, YOU GUYS are trying to turn this into a scenario in which I was wrong to carry a firearm on my own property; and, although most of you will readily admit that you can't identify a firearm at night, even with abundant lighting, you would STILL report a private citizen to the police, even though you have insufficient information upon which to draw your conclusion.
I think you just came here and posted your story looking for company in bashing the person who called the cops on you and bashing the cops for investigating.
Many of us here are not willing to do so and would call the police to determine what was going on.
Then you're more than welcomed to enjoy your police state. I, for one, do not enjoy it. More than that, I do not enjoy the mistrust that is apparent here among gun owners, such that they assail one another based on little or no information.
I would like a question answered: In a free society what is the proper role of a police force? Should there even be one? Your arguments appear to advocate anarchy.
How would you respond to three private citizens holding you at gunpoint on your own property whose only intent is to prevent your being robbed or murdered? I hope you can see how this scenario could get several innocent people with good intentions killed.
In a free state, the ultimate security and continued freedom of that state is up to the free citizens, who are granted the right to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution for that express purpose.
No, it is not up to the Executive branch to protect us individually — the job of the Executive branch is to protect the NATION against all enemies foreign and domestic. However, the Second Amendment clearly calls upon citizen Militias to ensure the security of a Free State.
This entails the armed citizenry protecting itself not only from local crime, but also from an increasingly corrupt and oppressive central government when necessary, just as the Founders intended.
I guess maybe it would have been your duty to shoot the police then, to protect yourself from them, eh?
The police work for the citizens, yes. In this case the majority of citizens on this forum feel that the police did their job properly.
So I guess you are just S.O.L. unless you want to rise up against the majority of citizens here.
If you trust the human race, get rid of any gun that you do not use for hunting, and in my state a tact shotgun can not be used to hunt with.
Well, I'm NOT going to jump to the conclusion that somebody is committing a crime or is about to commit a crime because I see him on private property with what appears to be a firearm. I don't think like that. I'm not so fearful and suspicious that I mistrust the American gun owner.
When I started this thread, I asked a simple question — a question to which I already knew the answer.
My intent was to elicit the opinions of the forum members here regarding our RIGHTS to keep and bear arms.
As expected, the discussion quickly coalesced around "suspicious" behavior... Which is the socio-political climate that has evolved in America just over the last two decades, due to "terrorist" propaganda here and abroad.
This government has endeavored to turn Americans against one another, using the tools of fear and suspicion and mistrust. For that reason, I characterize our Central Government as the true terrorist entity in America.
They use fear to turn Americans against one another, to turn gun owners against one another, and to intimidate Americans into standing by and DOING NOTHING as their Liberty is rapidly eroded.
It should make you sick to your stomachs.
And exactly WHAT is unsafe or careless about that pose? So I posed for a photo with Ruger 357 Mag and a Damascus head-cutter (blade out). So what?The biggest thing that bothers me about your argument is your picture that shows you holding a hand gun and a bar-fight Bowie against your neck which shows you not being so careful with them.
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