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Mob cop mentality, yes i see your valid point. If you follow my thread posts i has this event happening in a different state than it did, but as you say, a good person is not a threat to a LEO, and should/would consent to acknowledge that he/she has the weapon (in this case its obvious) part with it for LEO safety, and should/will have it returned when said encounter is completed. Again, that's all textbook assuming the officer is capable and knowledgeable.

"...and should/would consent to acknowledge that he/she has the weapon (in this case its obvious) part with it for LEO safety, and should/will have it returned when said encounter is completed."

Well...except for that part, considering that most LEO members of lobby organizations are pushing against the Second Amendment and trying to convince citizens that they have no Second Amendment rights. It's an antagonistic environment.

Here are more unlicensed opinions and experiences, for what it's worth.

Most police were a different breed during the '60s and before--more often with prior combat training and more often married with kids. ...tough, when they needed to be but very respectable. Some in my extended family (very clean men) earned their retirements in some rough neighborhoods, where nearly every resident carried concealed weapons. Generally, even in an anti-Second-Amendment legal climate, they only confiscated weapons while arresting perpetrators of crimes other than firearms laws. They had no more general regard for wealthier citizens than poorer ones.

That has changed. Certain local merchants in many locales can indeed order police to confiscate weapons from particular individuals, where no violation has occurred. I saw that in person too many times and did something about it in one area.

Our nation was not founded on ancient Roman technical laws, although terminology and some ideas from those are used. It was founded by Puritans, Huguenots, and the like, on moral Law. We have gradually fallen from that since the middle of the 1800s (revival of Romanticism), and of course, police are not solely to blame. We Baby Boomers and subsequent generations are to blame for the latest and worst degeneration.