That Old Thing…
Goleta Valley, CA
A driver stopped while driving in Goleta with an expired vehicle registration tab one recent afternoon was asked by deputies if he had a loaded firearm inside his vehicle.
“I don’t think so, but let me check,†he replied.
A car search uncovered a loaded Smith & Wesson concealed under the driver’s floor mat. The man explained how he’d gone target shooting “last January†and had forgotten about it.
The man, 40, who was arrested for possession of the concealed weapon and driving without a valid license, had also never registered the pistol.
Found in the Goleta Valley Voice
July 28th, 2007 at 2:49 am
Why did they ask him that? I’ve never been asked if I had a “loaded” firearm during a traffic stop. Even for expiration or suspension issues, all they ever ask me is if I have anything sharp in my pockets while they are rooting through them. There’s got to be more to this….
July 28th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Yea that is kind of weird. I was pulled over for excessively dark tint and when I opened the glovebox to get all my reg. and ins. info for him he had noticed a couple clips for my .380 auto and he “unclips” his holster and asked if I had a gun in the car and I tell him yes and pop the trunk and he checked it out and said everything was cool and wrote me a ticket for the tint. I went to court and the fine was $10 and court cost was $21…… lol @ that bastard!
Oh and my windows were down at the time and he asked me to put them up so he could see them but—–he didn’t even have a tint checker thing to verify they were too dark—tint is still on it though!
July 30th, 2007 at 10:40 am
Thats a hard price to pay for finding your old lady wth another man. He didn’t get to the “I shot her down…” part.