How would any of you of handled this?

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You guys keep saying he was acting suspicious. What was he doing that was suspicious? Open carrying? Or did somebody who thinks guns are scary call the cops and say he was acting suspicious based solely on the fact that he had a gun? As far as I can tell, he didn't do anything wrong.

I never stated that he was acting suspicious not am I accusing him of being a criminal.

Would I open carry just so that I could spout off some legal cases to the first cop that stopped me? No. And if that is the only reason he did it, maybe he is a bit of an ass. But that doesn't mean he did anything wrong, nor does it justify the cop forcing the guy to do anything he doesn't have to do.

That is exactly my point. If I thought he was a criminal I would accuse him of being a criminal. He is an ass, I called him an ass because that is what he is.

And on the cop bit, I think that the cop was not trying to impede on his rights, I think that he was called to a suspicious male with a gun (yes, the citizen who called in/call taker considered his apparent legal actions to be dangerous without there seeming to be a basis of any need for the police) and acted in a manner to protect his own safety while responding to a potentially dangerous call (most calls for a man with a gun do not turn out to be a person trying to make some type of political statement or other self serving behavior). It seems that the cop did not follow statute verbatim, but instead acted in what seemed to me to be a reasonable nature in response to the nature of the call.

I apologize if my earlier statements had mislead you.