A lot of weirdness about this. I assume this “officer” has jurisdiction in the tunnel? Still a bit weird that the opening conversation with the officer is “Where’s the gun?” Maryland is a constitution free zone with extreme limits on gun possession and transport of even legal firearms.
>> Finally the patrol car’s emergency lights come on, and it’s almost a relief. Whatever was going on, they’d be able to get it over with now. The officer — from the Transportation Authority Police, as it turns out, Maryland’s version of the New York-New Jersey Port Authority — strolls up, does the license and registration bit, and returns to his car.
>> According to Kally and John (but not MTAP, which, pending investigation, could not comment), what happened next went like this:
>> Ten minutes later he’s back, and he wants John out of the Expedition. Retreating to the space between the SUV and the unmarked car, the officer orders John to hook his thumbs behind his back and spread his feet. “You own a gun,” the officer says. “Where is it?”
And there you have it ...the tunnel cop thought he had an easy mark: an out of state car. When the tunnel cop ran his license, he learned that Filippidis has a FL CCW ... and went full retard. Everything after follows as predictably as night follows day. The tunnel cop is a thinly disguised thug, and went off in a fit of jealous rage.
BTW, I assume that any polizei that has seen my plates or driver license knows that I have a CHL ... and probably knows some other things as well. I avoid contact with them like the plague.
Nice to live in a county where the sheriff doesn’t share his CCW files with ANYBODY.
The few times I’ve been traffic stopped, I’ve NEVER been asked if I’m packing.
Before we were married, wife got CCW in next county. She gets asked when she’s stopped.
The elevated stretches of I-95 north and south of the tunnel, as well as the I-395 spur, are under the jurisdiction of the MTA, so it's not implausible for the MTA police to pull you over outside the tunnel.
Your tolls at work.