Thread: A-Cat semi-auto mag capacity

Originally Posted by Savage1

Here's a piece of advice, if you have a reasonable excuse/reason then tell the cop. No point in making them guess/assume what your reason might be and it will make it a lot easier on yourself. They're not the enemy if you've done nothing wrong.

As this relates to my previous post a little more detail is I feel in order. Things started off ok, checked license then wanted to look at the rifle so I open the case thats when it took a turn for the worst. Oh you havnt removed the bolt, and the magazine is still on, I explain its an sks semiauto, the bolt is a little hard to remove, and the magazine is fixed, it dont come off. Whats the orange thing? its a chamber flag they show its not loaded. So you carry it loaded sometimes do you? Only when Im hunting not otherwise.
At this point I got a bad feeling
about where this seemed to be going.
Well its a mssa and you dont have an endorsement for that, I try explaining that it is a cat but get told to shut up and step away from the car. He takes the rifle over to a patrol car and talks to the guy inside, there is some arm waving and finger pointing in my direction then the driver gets out. He opens the case, lifts the rifle out drops the mag open looks at it, closes it back, up shoulders the thing then puts it back in the case and wanders over alone. Hands me it back apologises about the other guys behaviour (not always the highest calibre personell on daytime booze bus checkpoints) and talks guns for a bit wanted to know what i thought of the sparc and how the days shooting had been. Left feeling a lot better but still think of what could have happened and how long it would have taken to sort it out.