SPRINGERFANATIC
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I need help understanding if this officer went out of bounds.
I was on my way back from the Garland public shooting range going down the highway when my radar detector went off. I wasn't speeding and made sure to stay the speed limit as I passed the officer who was on the shoulder. I saw him enter the highway and sure enough a few moments later he pulled me over. As soon as he got to my window I courteously informed him that I was leaving the range about 2 miles back and had some guns in the car. He told me he stopped me for speeding (which is BS) and for no front license place (got me there). He instructed me to exit the vehicle and began questioning me about how many guns I had and told me he needed to remove them and run the serial numbers. I questioned him and told him I wasn't sure he could do that with out my consent. He told me it was policy and I asked If I could make a phone call "to my lawyer brother" and he told me I could not. I sat there on the side of the highway for 25 minutes as he searched my car and removed all 7 guns I had with me and wrote down the serial numbers. After running the numbers he declared "looks like their legal" and dismissed me. Was this officer out of lines? I just feel like he was kind of over stepping his boundaries especially with the updates to the traveling law in Texas...
Thanks for your input.
I was on my way back from the Garland public shooting range going down the highway when my radar detector went off. I wasn't speeding and made sure to stay the speed limit as I passed the officer who was on the shoulder. I saw him enter the highway and sure enough a few moments later he pulled me over. As soon as he got to my window I courteously informed him that I was leaving the range about 2 miles back and had some guns in the car. He told me he stopped me for speeding (which is BS) and for no front license place (got me there). He instructed me to exit the vehicle and began questioning me about how many guns I had and told me he needed to remove them and run the serial numbers. I questioned him and told him I wasn't sure he could do that with out my consent. He told me it was policy and I asked If I could make a phone call "to my lawyer brother" and he told me I could not. I sat there on the side of the highway for 25 minutes as he searched my car and removed all 7 guns I had with me and wrote down the serial numbers. After running the numbers he declared "looks like their legal" and dismissed me. Was this officer out of lines? I just feel like he was kind of over stepping his boundaries especially with the updates to the traveling law in Texas...
Thanks for your input.