ClassicSWC, you first wrote,
Sure it's easy to bluster on the web, but I've been there, done that. Had some yahoo l.e.o. try some bullcrap confiscation of a rifle of mine some years ago. Guess it never occured to the dummy that I might have another firearm. After listening to his crap for a few minutes, I opened my coat, revealing my pistol and told him if he wanted that rifle, he was gonna have to earn it. Guess he didn't want it too bad, 'cause I still have it.
Believe it, don't believe it, I don't care. I was there, but I don't remember seeing you there.
I don't have to be there. if I take your post at face value, you did threaten with the pistol and your statement. You wrote it, not me.
In your first post, you clearly state,
"Had some yahoo l.e.o. try some bullcrap confiscation of a rifle of mine some years ago."
That implies a LEO, or Law Enforcement Officer. Then you stated,
"After listening to his crap for a few minutes, I opened my coat, revealing my pistol..."
Uhhm, that is BRANDISHING, in your own words. Then you stated,
"and told him if he wanted that rifle, he was gonna have to earn it."
Well, so thats a direct verbal threat, the way you write it. First you open your coat and show him your pistol when he tries to take your rifle? That is brandishing, and a blatant threat, then you state that if he wants your rifle, he's gonna have to earn it, WHILE SHOWING HIM YOUR PISTOL?
Sorry, but it sounds a bit clit eastwoody to me. Those actions, if truely done in that manner, would no doubt get you arrested or shot, reguardless of wether it was a 'game warden', or not.