Weapons?
Hogwash. Besides, just about anything can be used as a weapon.
The car itself makes a pretty good weapon. If the ‘bad guy’ just wanted to, you know, be a ‘bad guy’.
I was once a 20 year-old male with a '64 Skylark convertible... that made for a pretty effective cop magnet. One night I was driving home from the recording studio at 1:30 in the morning, with the full drum kit in the back seat and the trunk. Going through Hopewell Township, NJ, cherries lit up behind me and the next thing I know I am pulled over, allegedly for a tail light being out. Next thing I know, I am asked to step out of the car... told to stand at the front of my car, accused of drinking and smoking dope... which I did neither.
So I get the whole "threat" about if I don't allow a search of the car, they will detain me and get the K-9 out there. I was dog tired and had to be up in 4 hours to shovel coal into the firebox of a steam locomotive that morning.
They pulled out the whole drum kit on the side of the road. They then found my Louisville Slugger, and mitt and they had a HUGH problem with that and demanded I carry it in the trunk, because, "You could use it as a weapon against an officer of the law".
That exact line will never be forgotten.
Then, and I am not making this up, they found my collection of boomerangs sitting on the floor in the back... I was asked, "Do you know how to use these?"
When I replied yes, IMMEDIATELY, I get the whole, "You could use these as weapons against an officer of the law" line again... which I was ready to just either bust out laughing out loud as I thought how that conversation would go...
"Excuse me, officer. Can you stand right here so I can run 35 yards down the road so I can get a good clear line at you with my boomerang?"... it was that or just grabing the cop's gun, cuffing him, and throwing him in the back of his car, and driving it to the station to file a complaint.
So into the trunk went my 6 boomerangs, too... and while I was there, I jiggled the wire on the tail light reilluminating it... 45 minute traffic stop.
That was the day I learned contempt and distrust for "officers of the law".