Stopped by Texas Highway patrol all good

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Stopped by Texas Highway patrol all good

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Have been fishing in Texas for the last 2 weeks, last night started home. Stopped for speeding just before crossing Toledo Bend lake into Louisiana.
Officer approached on passenger side and I informed as quick as possible. His response. "Thanks for informing me". :D
None issue even though I was from Ohio. Carrying on my Utah license... Didn't ask anything...

Anyway home today. :D


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Isn't going through Toledo to get from Texas to Louisiana the long way? No wonder you had to speed!

Pops Fun wrote:Have been fishing in Texas for the last 2 weeks, last night started home. Stopped for speeding just before crossing Toledo Bend lake into Louisiana.
Officer approached on passenger side and I informed as quick as possible. His response. "Thanks for informing me". :D
None issue even though I was from Ohio. Carrying on my Utah license... Didn't ask anything...

Anyway home today. :D


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Glad it went well.

Word on the street down here is if the stop had been in Louisiana instead of Texas, it had a good probability of becoming "more interesting". For example, did you have a sales receipt for your firearm when you were traveling? I've heard of handguns being confiscated from Texans by Louisiana po-po if they could not provide proof of ownership right there on the roadside. :roll: It is unclear to me if a nice custom 1911 has a greater chance of being confiscated that a piece of garbage handgun. It also is unclear to me if any record of such handgun confiscation ever makes it back to the police station or if it simply ends up in the po-po's home. :roll: :roll: (Note for the record, in general principle I do not use derogatory nicknames for a law enforcement officer, but when this type of misbehavior occurs I figure they earned it.)

As info, there is no need to have any form of license to carry any loaded firearm (handgun or long gun) in your car in Texas.
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Did he write you up?
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gfrlaser wrote:Did he write you up?
Actually gave me a warning... :) Talked about having 946 miles to go...May have felt sorry for us :)
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BobK wrote:Glad it went well.

I've heard of handguns being confiscated from Texans by Louisiana po-po if they could not provide proof of ownership right there on the roadside. .
Is that supposedly a local or state-level phenomenon ??
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docachna wrote:
BobK wrote:Glad it went well.

I've heard of handguns being confiscated from Texans by Louisiana po-po if they could not provide proof of ownership right there on the roadside. .
Is that supposedly a local or state-level phenomenon ??
I have heard such (second and third hand) accounts a few times. The jist was that these unlawful confiscations were at the hands of individual members of a few local PD's. Louisiana's reputation for law enforcement practices at several levels has been none too flattering for many years. I doubt it's all just sour grapes.

But then again I went to an estate auction in west central Ohio one time, because it featured several hundred guns for sale. The back story was that the owner had been a town constable somewhere in that area several years previous, and most all those firearms had been seized improperly by the man. Further snooping on my part yielded a couple of other oft-repeated details:

1) People had long been aware of this practice but until the politicians who kept appointing this guy constable were voted out or died, no one was willing to look into the matter.

2) The BATFE had visited the auctioneer a day or so before the sale and confiscated a bunch of Class III stuff. They take the fun out of everything, but sounds as though they were actually doing their job properly for a change.
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Think a lot of these stories that are spread around are just that stories. My buddy got popped in Maryland passing thru and nothing happened. He got have a nice day and was on his way.
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