Posted on 01/07/2015 9:30:40 AM PST by Kaslin
Thanks, I’m sure that I’m a turn or two behind the technology curve. Your point on civil liberties is spot on. We now live in an age where the authorities believe that they have a right to detain and interrogate any person at any time for any reason and that right extends over the threshold of their home. All in the name of public safety.
The requirement for any permit makes it a privilege rather than a right. Do not comply.
We have to when driving to visit our son and daughter-in-law in D.C. or to our timeshares on the Outer Banks and Hilton Head.
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“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” Barack Hussein Obama, 7/2/2008They don’t call it a Civil Defense force, that would imply we need (or perhaps that we deserve) defense. The official name is National Civilian Community Corps.
I think of it as the NatCCC, or more simply, as the NatCs...
...And what a better way to repay your “free” college debt than to serve in the NatCCC. Spiffy uniforms, kick ass boots and weaponry to put down the nativist, constitutionalist rabble. It’s a win-win!
“...Actually, a lot of police cruisers these days have cameras that automatically read license plates and query various data systems to see if a hit of some sort pops up. DC cruisers definitely have them, two mounted externally on the rear quarter panels facing forward....”
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Such technology is becoming less noticeable; similar to the smallness of very high quality GoPro cameras.
>>Any police cruiser has a data entry device. Enter the license plate number and the registered owner’s driver’s license info will come up. For many states, that will also include info on a CCL. They know who you are.
Have you done a ride-along lately? Many police vehicles have LPR, automated license plate reader systems. Multiple cameras on the vehicle scan nearby license plates, OCR them, feed the license numbers into a database, and look for hits. The guy I was riding with was looking for outstanding warrants, unpaid tag fees, and lapsed auto insurance, which is not unreasonable. But then you get into an anti-2A Civil Rights borderline police state like Maryland, and they’re pretty clearly here using the system to harass those who exercise their 2A rights. This is stepping over a very big line, and is extraordinarily troubling.
FWIW here in GA in the ATL area, there have been numerous new very nice indoor ranges open up in the last 6-8 years. I can think of 4-5 offhand, plus a major renovation of one of the older ranges that has been around 2-3 decades.
As with any suspicious car following you, pull into a well lighted and populated area so there will be witnesses to scare the creep away.
just gets worse and worse
A Republican RINO governor helps Democrats.
Slightly off topic, my experience with Maryland Troopers is that they have been behaving like goons for years...I can remember back in the 80s traveling from Delaware to Virginia that they’d be all over Rte. 50...like white on rice.
I always rode the speed limit or a couple of mph under...got pulled over simply because my motorcycle “looked fast”.
Back then, a red and black 1983 Kawasaki GPz 550 was pretty fast. But NEVER in MD.
LOL! Thanks, I knew I was missing a few adjectives.
We in the states with Shall issue CHL/CCW need to pressure our state legislatures to block access from states without reciprocity. They have no need to know about a Florida permit if they wouldn’t recognize it anyway.
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