Saturday, September 24, 2016

Question about duty to inform states


TL;DR: Go straight to the last paragraph if you want to skip the conversation.Earlier today I had a very intelligent (read sarcastically) discussion about duty to inform states with a young gentleman on Instagram.The whole conversation stemmed from post about the recent killings by police officers. Another person commented and said that most were due to the fact that the police were not notified about the subject being armed. I'm not debating whether that is true or not, this is just the back story. His wording was cleaned up a little bit to make it more legible. My conversation with Mr. Intelligent (hereby referred to as MI) went something like this:MI: I don't have to notify anyone of my weapon.Me: Some state laws require you to inform the officer if you are carrying on your person or in your vehicle.MI: That would be an unconstitutional law which, as our founding fathers said, an unconstitutional law is not a law at all.Me: Duty to inform is basically in place to ensure the safety of the officer. It doesn't directly infringe your rights as a person.MI: Thinking about the first 4 amendments do you really think their (founding fathers) thought was, "okay, we need to make it so that everyone has to tell their government they are armed." No, that will let tyranny rise.I then proceeded to tell him again that it is peace of mind for the officer that he is not going up against a threat, and that the officer, in fact, does not want a full list of every weapon he owns. Also that if he refused to tell an officer that he had weapons on him, it would not go well for him.That whole conversation had me wondering what legal action would be taken if you refused to notify an officer of your concealed weapon in a duty to inform state? Would you be detained and searched, or actually taken to jail? I'm not counting the If Asked states, only the Must Inform states. via /r/CCW http://ift.tt/2d7t9Gz

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