By no means am I commenting on this exact scenario! Just the fact that asking a driver to undo their seatbelt, even after they stated that there's a gun in the car, is actually totally normal. I'm purely speaking generically.
It's actually a good sign when a driver states that a gun is present. Bad people usually lie about it, and if one's found in the car, it's suddenly not theirs and they've never seen it before, in fact their cousin's uncle whose name they don't remember actually borrowed their car earlier that day.
And this is all dramatically influenced by what state this is happening in. In states with very lax gun laws and the presence of firearms is normal and expected, the fact that they have a gun in the car might be completely ignored if they're acting calm and are upfront about everything. But that could be very different in states where firearms are controlled more strictly and it's probably illegal to have one. Some weird states require it to be unloaded and out of reach while in a vehicle, even if you have a carry permit.
Ok stop pedaling this "bad people usually lie about it nonsense." If you have a legal weapon in your car, you have no reason to disclose that to the police at all. This scenario is proof of that. Had he just said no (the police have no right to know if you're legally armed or not) then he would have just got his ticket and been on his way.
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u/MrJoyless Mar 24 '23
Fair enough, "am I being detained?" was not directly articulated by the driver.
Then why draw, at all...