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**Veronnisa** · 08-24-2012, 11:37 PM

The verifiability of said reasonable suspicion is flimsy at best: how does one determine whether a gun is semiauto or fully automatic?

You can't tell from far away. A lot of rifles have a civilian issue semi-automatic and a military issue fully-automatic version. The reasonable suspicion is as you said - how CAN one visually tell the difference? Almost impossible...

The only way out of this situation is to argue that fully automatic weapons are protected by the 2nd amendment, therefore granting the cop no reasonable suspicion.

08-24-2012, 11:37 PM	#37
Veronnisa Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 342 Senior Member	The verifiability of said reasonable suspicion is flimsy at best: how does one determine whether a gun is semiauto or fully automatic? You can't tell from far away. A lot of rifles have a civilian issue semi-automatic and a military issue fully-automatic version. The reasonable suspicion is as you said - how CAN one visually tell the difference? Almost impossible... The only way out of this situation is to argue that fully automatic weapons are protected by the 2nd amendment, therefore granting the cop no reasonable suspicion.
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