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this is an excellent example police professionalism in an
officer dealing with a guy tape recording him during a stop for
open carrying a gun of a type that the ofc. BELIEVES he has
reasonable suspicion as to it being fully automatic.note he is also
responding to citizen complaint.

fwiw,i do NOT think he had reasonable suspicion based on what i
know from the video,but whether or not he did,he acted extremely
professionally,he even congratulated the guy for keeping others
safer by carryin, etc.

again,assume he DOES NOT have RS, which is what the carrier (and
I ) believe,he proper venue for redress is after the stop, NOT
ignoring the cops orders. once the officer says the guy is free to
leave, which he does VERY quickly, the subject could certainly
request a supervisor, the CAD # of the incident, etc.

and the guy doesn’t. he makes it clear he is not consenting to
anything, and both parties are polite and respectful

i also don’t see how he could do a functionality check of the
gun, after removing the bullets, as to whether it was fully
automatic

furthermore, it is BAD safety practice to load and unload a gun
without a much better backstop etc. granted, the dynamic street
situation limits his choices, but still

again, i can disagree with the ofc. INTERPRETATION of the fact
pattern, and there MAY be additional factors that he didn’t mention
that DO rise to reasonable suspicon, for all i know