Could a LEO legally use a firearm related sticker/logo on a bag or on your car as probable cause that there is a firearm in the vehicle and therefore conduct a search without your consent and without you stating if you did or did not have any firearms with you?
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I'm curious about this too. I doubt it for search, but I know for sure they approach more cautiously. -
I would ask this in the LEO forum, that way you get real LEO's answering your question.Comment
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I believe there was a case somewhere the cops had pulled someone over for having an NRA sticker thinking the driver had guns in the car...
310 F.3d at 353
Originally posted by Magana opinionIn Estep, the Fifth Circuit stated that the presence of a NRA sticker on a vehicle should not have raised the inference the driver was dangerous. Id. at 358. The Court concluded "[r]egardless of whether there is some correlation between the display of an NRA sticker and gun possession, placing an NRA sticker in one's vehicle is certainly legal and constitutes expression which is protected by the First Amendment. A police officer's inference that danger is afoot because a citizen displays an NRA sticker in his vehicle presents disturbing First and Fourth Amendment implications." Id. at 358-359 (emphasis in original).Comment
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That has been an issue in Ohio. Remember the guys putting those little stickers on their cars in support of the 2A and some Ohio police agency coming out with the bulletin about it? It basically told officers that if they see that sticker that they were to assume the occupant of the vehicle had a gun.Custom made Tail Gunner Trailer Hitch for sale.
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like ricers putting stickers all over their cars and wondering why they get pulled over and have their hoods popped and cars impounded.Comment
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If they can I should have been pulled over a LOT more then I have been!
(Once for speeding, I was)
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Regardless of what stickers you have on your car, there still have to be either probable cause for a Search or your Consent for a Search.
Never consent to a search. Never.
(By the way; always transport your guns legally. Unloaded in a locked case)
Probable cause would have to be you resemble an escaped felon or you are a wanted person. Someone who looks like you just robbed a bank down the street...etc...etc..etc.. NOT because you have a GLOCK sticker on your bumper.
Learn to listen to the conversation when pulled over. If you are removed from your car (asked to get out) and sat down on the CURB or Sidewalk, expect the Police to search. They will ask you if you have anything illegal inside the car; you respond 'No', then they say as they are opening the drivers door...'You don't mind if I take a look then do you..?'...being intimidated you reply...'No, go ahead'....BAD MOVE.
I see this happen on COPS all the time. Young kids sitting on the sidewalk and the cops pull that stunt; find Pot or a pipe or something. They all go to jail.
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And you might have your lunch in that Glock-embossed tupperware. If they want to see what's in the box, they need probable cause, or a warrant (for which they are supposed to explain their probable cause).
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