Sipsey Street Irregulars: Gun owners fear Maryland cops target them for traffic stops

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Gun owners fear Maryland cops target them for traffic stops

Stories pile up but police say searches are legal

Don't worry about this. According to a reader who commented on another post, they've got everything under control in Maryland and don't need anymore help.

(See also: "The Heavy Lifter.")

7 comments:

Anonymous said...: All the stops are 100% kosher - according to the in-house reviews by MSP. Imagine that.

If for some currently unknown reason I were to drive through any portion of Maryland I will DAMNED sure make certain my CHL and guns are WELL AND TRULY hidden and That I am especially careful how I drive.; December 31, 2014 at 4:47 PM
Anonymous said...: Of considerably more interest to me is the "how" do MD cops know who's carrying and connect that to a vehicle they're driving ? That the system has flaws is recounted in the tale of an unarmed FL CCW that was ambushed and his family terrorized at roadside . And, since this MD pogrom isn't apparently restricted to only handguns, one has to wonder what effect its having on MD's inn-season tourism business. >Jeff; December 31, 2014 at 6:50 PM
Anonymous said...: I am a refugee from MD. My family still live there. One of my main reasons for leaving....The too onerous to ignore raft of S*(% laws that O'malley passed in the wake of Newtown. I have a CCW in the state I moved to. Every time I drive back to see my parents I sweat getting pulled over. I have been shaken down by the police in Baltimore...Don't trust MD cops. Sorry.; December 31, 2014 at 8:24 PM
Anonymous said...: Better off sticking you're hand in a bag of venomous snakes... Than trusting in L.E.O.'s on a local, state ,federal level. They have a we vs. them[Citizen], mentality. The thin blue line is suspect and beyond trust... To them they are the masters and the citizen is the slave. According to CSP LT.P. Vance... The oath to Preserve the Constitution, from all enemy's foreign ,or domestic, is merely window dressing. Pure and simple. Behind Enemy Lines. In Unconstitutional. Collectivist ,Ct. We Will Not Stand Down. AAA/O. 11B20.; January 1, 2015 at 1:35 AM
Anonymous said...: We have long since reached the point that if you own guns, the policeman is not your friend. Most of them will do whatever they are told to do at roll call.

If they kick in your door and you have a gun in your hand, they will try to kill you, no matter that you might not have known who it was, and they will get away with it. Tax dollars will pay the out of court settlement to your survivors, and they will continue to live and have a job while your family mourns your death by those "sworn" to protect you.

RIP Jose Guerena, USMC. This man survived Iraq to be gunned down in his own home for the crime of having a gun in his hands when they kicked his door in. They lied and said he shot at them, yet his weapon was recovered still on safe. His killers walk free.

The correct response to any forcible entry is a full mag dump into the funnel from cover. Pistol calibers are a bad idea for this purpose, they don't penetrate soft armor, which a lot of bad guys have these days. ;)

Be prepared.

11B10; January 1, 2015 at 10:18 AM
Anonymous said...: just start shooting them -- see NYPD big bad boys? they just stop doing their jobs 'cause they're actual chickens, not choking a 300 # fat guy to death on a sidewalk. Getting tired of cops all together...I don't care if they all got shot.; January 1, 2015 at 10:26 PM
Anonymous said...: Couple of dead cops will stop this silliness. The story also points out the drawback of getting a carry permit.; January 2, 2015 at 11:02 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

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