In 02' I was PCSing cross country and was pulled over by the Rez Cops in New Mexico for speeding (73 in a 70 cresting a hill), it was Rez Cops because apparently the Interstate crossed through their reservation. Since I was PCSing I had every firearm I owned and ammo with me along with my response gear and crash bag. 30 firearms in total. After the obligatory puffed chest hand on the gun BS with Barney number one after I informed him I was carrying legally and had a metric buttload of firearms in the truck we got started with the true tom-foolery. I.E. "when I want your military ID and orders I will ask for them" after I handed over the PCS orders, MilID, DL, Nevada CCW, and POI. A few minutes afterward Barney's number 2 - 6 show up to "help" with said dangerous "survivalist AF Bomb guy smuggling a truckload of machineguns".
Well two and a half hours after the initial stop and having to watch dumb, dumber, and dumbest try and figure out how to clear FALs, an M-96, AK's, AR's, 1911's, shotguns, H&K's, and some 22's, I was free to start packing all of my things back into my truck and depart. Oh I offered to help them with my firearms but was very adamantly told "NO". My laughing probably didn't help matters any when tweedle dumbest and tweedle dumber than a rock couldn't figure out how to open the cylinder on my Colt Walker repro, or figure out how to open the chambers on my Brown Bess and Hawken.
They told me exactly what I already knew, and that was all my firearms were in fact mine and not stolen. During the repacking phase which took another hour a Res cop was decent enough to hang around and tell me to hurry up as it was dangerous just sitting on the side of the highway.
This incident is still a sore subject with me as I have never had a bad run-in and due to the nature of my job work very closely with Fed and Local LEO's. Nothing was damaged except my pride and opinion of LEO in this general area. I didn't get put in cuffs but was told to sit on my hands
on the shoulder of the road. Playing 20 questions with former Army 11 bang bang who knows everything about all branches of the military, over me having possession of my armor and response gear was interesting too. I never knew being in the Army and being LEO made you an expert on how other branches do things
OH and they went ahead and issued my a citation for the 73 in a 70 which a had to pay by money order since I didn't feel like hanging around podunk crapsville till Monday for their offices to open up. Tack on another few dollars to an already BS ticket put me in a real good mood. And no, never thought of a lawyer or filing charges because at the time the intersweb was just a place for me to order gear and firearm stuff and not a place to go to for advice. If I had known differant at the time I would have seriously considered it. So yes it is not fun getting pulled over with all of your toys in the truck even if you have a very valid reason. I hope you gents have better experiances than I did.