This case would never have seen the light of day in Arizona 50 years ago because no cop would have bothered stopping anyone just because they had a sidearm or a rifle.
It would have been incomprehensible then.
And I know that for a fact because as a teenager I routinely carried both with friends headed to the desert to hunt the dreaded varmints.
Pima county sheriffs used to blast right by us. On their way to arrest real criminals.
It was a safe state then.
You put half a dozen blacks armed with rifles on the courthouse steps and in no time you have gun control.
I used to sling my rifle, load a brick of ammo and a canteen on the bicycle, and pedal out on the highway to some dry dusty wash for soda can and beer bottle destruction. One day I heard sirens and pulled over to watch a high-speed chase of liquor store robbers zoom past. Maricopa County never paid any attention to me.
I did have an unpleasant experience at the hands of the DPS when I tried to deposit money in the bank so I could buy the rifle (they wouldn't take cash from a sixteen-year-old at the sporting goods store). The bank teller mistook my ignorance of proper deposit slip etiquette as attempted bank robbery....