So the officer can choose not to issue a citation or arrest a person accused of a crime, and can instead simply confiscate the personal property that might be illegally carried/possessed? So, if i was pulled over in a vehicle with a registration that could not be traced/verified, a LEO has the legal discretion to either arrest me as a car thief or possessor of stolen goods OR the LEO can simply remove the allegedly stolen property & send the alleged criminal on his merry way? That seems like more discretion than i would want and more than most LEO's (all but the most experienced) probably need.
Most police and citizens cannot see a non-LEO carrying a handgun in a legal fashion.
That is not what I said. I said that if there was doubt about legal possession of a CCW absent any controversy regarding ownership and the presumption that the CCW permit was in fact valid a way to avoid making the LAWFUL UUW pinch is to split the difference in the manner I described.
Because at the end of the day the offender could have been locked up legitimiately.
If the Copper shot his mouth off perhaps it was in response to a major DYKWIA incident
. Deputy Stern should be fired for being criminally ignorant of the law