Maryland "storm-troopers" harass innocent gun owner

[Archangel M]

I dont mean to be argumentative, just saying that I think there is plenty of "wobble room" in this story until its firmed up. On a different topic, Ive been in contact with the Md branch of the family and my father-in-law is a big firearms guy. He hasnt seen zip beyond the net on this story. Id be tearing up the lines to the media if I was this guy. He obviously isnt afraid to have it up all around the net. I hoping that more detail shows up because I am very interested in this story.

 

[Jimi]

I would like more details too, but without a real story, it is just hear say, even our opinions.

 

[Archangel M]

I would like more details too, but without a real story, it is just hear say, even our opinions.

Absolutely. Im states away from this, I dont "know" anything about what really happened here. Im just postin...:asian:

 

[jks9199]

Deja view, don'tcha know!

 

[jks9199]

Folks,
I think we can all agree that there are at least two sides to this story, and we only have heard (second hand) one of them.

As a LEO myself, who, because of my current assignment, often shows up for warrant services and other such activities in an external "tac" vest, often with several other guys similarly attired... I can respect that there are probably some reasons for this that may not have been mentioned. I don't recall, for example, any mention as to the underlying charge for the bench warrant.

But it's also possibly that a specialized unit may have been hunting stats to justify their existence... or keep some politician off there back.

Let's just try to keep the discussion reasonably civil. Name calling and sniping won't further the discussion...

 

[Ahriman]

1, The storm troopers were the SA, not the SS ///sorry I couldn't resist the urge to be a smartass///
2, Actually I agree with wearing protective equipment as often as one can, just in the past few months we had two murders (keep in mind that Hungary has a lower population than some of your cities :wink: ) which would've been avoided if the victims wore bulletproof vests as in both cases the weapon was a pistol and in both cases the bullet hit the chest area. One guy was a police officer the other a money escort guy, so both COULD'VE BEEN wearing vests legally (as they are illegal for most folks here) but they didn't think things would go wrong. They were very, very, very wrong in this assumption. Even as bulletproof vests are seen as threatening stuff here, I seriously think that cops should wear them as much as they can. Their life is more important than the mental peace of civilians and I say this even as I don't really trust the Hungarian cops.
The same goes for all other parts of equipment - it's better to have them on needlessly for 500 occasions than NOT having them on that one occasion when they'd REALLY need them.
...
That's enough about the equipment, the behaviour... well, I don't know what's legal there and what's not, and I understand that we've only heard half of the story but... but the fact that we didn't hear the other half means that the police doesn't care about it. If this doesn't change we won't know better and this story (and others) will spread and undermine the trust in police officers around there which will sooner or later result in the same as in Hungary - when you see a police officer, you get to the other side of the road, or turn around, start behaving VERY low profile, if they ask you about something you only tell them as much as you REALLY must, when you witness crime you won't call the cops, and so on. This is not a good thing. It has nothing to do with the original story, it's the result of the police not clearing up the events as soon as possible no matter if the original story was real or not.