We suspect you are cooking meth, Citizen. What, no meth? Well, we’re going to seize your laptop, your firearms and your cash.
The cash was almost certainly acquired from a drug deal, the laptop undoubtedly has illegal content and the firearms, well, no citizen needs those when the Agents of the State are armed!
Good point. The feds can now come in for suspicion of an action, seize and search. If they find anything illegal, now they can get a retroactive search warrant. If they find nothing illegal, suspicious amounts of cash can still be seized and kept. Civil forfeiture, I think.
Either way, they can take your property and you have legal recourse.
The scary thought is that they can even seize your assets and the court has said that holding all your money prior to a trial so you can’t hire a good attorney isn’t a violation of your rights. You can get a cheap and inexperienced public attorney just like everyone else.
I wonder how much cash and how many rounds of ammo a person would need to have for a cop to consider it suspicious.