[raybbr]

If requested, the officer may take possession of the weapon, for safety reasons, until the contact is complete.

Under what thought process is this right? How does a cop get to simply disarm a citizen when there is no crime being committed?

[marktwain]

The Supreme Court made a ruling on this exact subject.

They wrote that an officer may disarm suspects during a “Terry Stop”.

There has to be some reasonably articulable suspicion of a crime.

A traffic stop is not supposed to even happen unless the officer can articulate a reasonable suspicion of a law being broken.