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Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:44:46

A court with some sense.  So refreshing.

NEW ORLEANS- A National Rifle Association sticker was not enough justification to warrant a police search of a pickup truck for a gun, a federal appeals court has ruled. 

Finally, a common sense ruling related to guns.  The Las Vegas Sun provided me with this link.

Imagine how far this kind of precedent could go if allowed to stand.  Something as innocuous as a Grateful Dead bumper sticker being allowed as probable cause to search for drugs....is that so improbable when compared to the idea of searching a truck because it had an NRA sticker?

Since when does support for an organization that is 100% legal, above board and the second most powerful lobby in Washington give a cop the right to search your vehicle?

This is the part that I found interesting:

According to the court record, Estep got out of the pickup with his identification and was asked by an officer if he was carrying a weapon. Estep said he wasn’t, although he gave the officer a canister of mace he was carrying on a key chain.


Well...he wasn’t *carrying* a weapon, he was *transporting* a firearm in a case.  Big difference.

Kudos to the court.


Posted by JimK at 07:44 PM on October 23, 2002
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