Don't speed.
If you're stopped don't tell the LEO that not not carrying if you are.
Cops hate to be lied to. Drives them nuts.
It’s interesting for sure. And I might object to the ruling, if I could be enlightened on one highly relevant point (and in fact, I DO object to the ruling, if the court didn’t deal with this issue before handing down the ruling). That point would be the grounds for the pending warrant against the defendant. Not that I think being any sort of LEO should be a free pass to carry a gun, while ordinary citizens are being denied that right. But if this guy’s warrant was for some violent crime, and he knew about the warrant (which I assume he did, since a Coast Guard officer still showing up for duty on a regular basis wouldn’t be hard to track down) and hadn’t turned himself in, he should be in deep doo-doo.
A rogue LEO, on the lam from a warrant in one jurisdiction, while the jurisdiction giving him his LEO status is unaware of the outstanding warrant or the offense it’s based on, should not be free to be running around with a gun, while law-abiding citizens have to jump through all sorts of hoops to get permits to carry a gun. Seems to me that running from an arrest warrant should automatically cancel any and all privileges associated holding with LEO status.
Interesting case. Does this have any precedent possibility nationwide? That would’ve come in handy back in the day... though I got concealed permits anyway.
This guy has done us a favor, though it’s not the end of troubles for this PO. His command is going to have some things to say about the other parts. He won’t get drummed out, but he’ll probably lose a stripe or two.