Ok, my take on this is that this particular officer was in the wrong. I don't believe it was an instance of a police officer being heavy handed, but rather one of the officer being ignorant. Not stupid, just ignorant. I can understand why the officer might have believed disarming this individual was the prudent thing to do, but she was still in the wrong.

I have grave concern over the increasing militarization of so many of our police departments. I do see a need for SWAT teams and the like for dealing with some types of situations and offenders, but these should be the exception and not the rule. A citizen with a valid CCW obviously has undergone an extensive criminal background check (blatently unconstitutional, but thats a topic for another thread), and as such, is obviously not a danger to the officer.

One thought I had about this situation is that this officer deprived the citizen of his constitutional right to keep and bear arms without due process of law (however briefly). Is she not guilty of violating his civil rights?