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MO Cop to Open Carry Advocates: Show Us Your Papers!

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I don’t think it’s a big deal if a cop asks someone open carrying a firearm for their ID—if the po-po believes that the gun schlepper is up to no good. Nor do I think it a big deal if the person with the openly carried firearm tells the inquisitive constable that citizens openly carrying a firearm don’t have to show their ID to cops—unless they’re being Terry-stopped. But I am opposed to cops and open carriers who insist on being dicks. In this case, it’s the former. A U.S. passport’s not sufficient ID for officer McGruff? GTFO. Why don’t you step out here with me? Why don’t you FOAD? Stand over here so everybody doesn’t have to stand here and look at us? Why does that give me a serious case of the willies? Seriously, this is exactly this kind of officious condescending attitude by a cop that makes me wish that everyone open carried so that the police understood that they’re not nearly as special as they think they are. Just sayin’.

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