tailgunner
Member In Memoriam
Driving back to Missouri from Las Vegas with my oldest daughter from a family reunion. We had pulled into a rest area in AZ at approx 4 AM and slept for two hours. I was driving when we left and my daughter was still sleeping in the back seat. I had just set the cruise control when I looked in my side mirror and saw a cruiser approaching fast. He moved into the lane behind me and hit his lights. My LW commander was on the front seat by me upholstered with the magazine in but no round chambered. I don't know why I did it but as I signaled and pulled over, I hit the magazine release and dropped the magazine out. After I stopped, I reached up and turned on the overhead light as it was still somewhat dark, rolled down my window and put my hands on top of the steering wheel. When the trooper got to my window I said “Good morning, I need to tell you that I have a weapon in my car but it is unloaded."
The trooper said OK where is it and I answered on the seat by me. He asked me to roll down my passenger window and walked around and reached in and retrieved the weapon. He looked at it then racked the slide to check if it was loaded and then examined it for a few more seconds. He then walked back around to my window and said “Sir, I have a question for you. Why in the world would you have an unloaded gun in your car?" I said that I was not exactly sure of AZ laws and that I was from the Midwest where weapons in cars are met with deep suspicion.
He smiled and said, “In the states down here everyone has a gun and in AZ they have two, I suggest that you carry it cocked and locked. Oh and by the way that is a very nice old commander." He then told me that the reason he pulled me over was that I had weaved a little leaving the rest area and that he wanted to make sure that there was no problem. He handed me back my weapon butt first and said drive safe and left.
I was flabbergasted, this is not what I would have expected in Missouri. If AZ had more trees and cooler temperatures, I would move there tomorrow!
The trooper said OK where is it and I answered on the seat by me. He asked me to roll down my passenger window and walked around and reached in and retrieved the weapon. He looked at it then racked the slide to check if it was loaded and then examined it for a few more seconds. He then walked back around to my window and said “Sir, I have a question for you. Why in the world would you have an unloaded gun in your car?" I said that I was not exactly sure of AZ laws and that I was from the Midwest where weapons in cars are met with deep suspicion.
He smiled and said, “In the states down here everyone has a gun and in AZ they have two, I suggest that you carry it cocked and locked. Oh and by the way that is a very nice old commander." He then told me that the reason he pulled me over was that I had weaved a little leaving the rest area and that he wanted to make sure that there was no problem. He handed me back my weapon butt first and said drive safe and left.
I was flabbergasted, this is not what I would have expected in Missouri. If AZ had more trees and cooler temperatures, I would move there tomorrow!
