Sorry if this has been asked, but is the fact that I'm a permit holder linked to my auto registration? IOW if a police officer calls in my license plate is he informed that I am a permit holder?

I ask because my wife and kid's cars are registered to me and I want to tell them if an officer might suspect a weapon. Of course I guess they always suspect a weapon and I would hope they'd feel better knowing there is a permit holder behind the wheel, but who knows?

Both the long and short answer are NO.

What he said.

Thank you very much. I guess someone misinformed me or I dreamed this up somehow...

http://www.twincitiescarry.com/forum/vi ... 4458#54458

Thank you.
This is what I and other instructors have found when asking for our plates or drivers license to be run by local law enforcement.

I realize this is an old rehash, but.....to say the answer is "no", I believe, can be misleading. I say rather than "no", it should be .."maybe".

I have been stopped a few times locally and before the officer came to the car they routinely had the database checked ....it may well be a very limited local procedure, but it was done.

Maybe the state can give permit holders a designer plate? Your choice of gun pictured on the plate.

Would keep people from tail gating

alternately, it would scream "GUN INSIDE< BREAK IN AND STEAL IT!" if you believe all the internet hype about NRA stickers and etc.

As with all hype, there's some basis in fact to worry about but it gets rediculously over played.

From talking to a few officers in Apple Valley I have determined that they were vaguely aware that they can look this up but weren’t even quite sure how to go about doing it. I don’t think it is a big concern to them. Just tell your wife to answer honestly if she should be asked. I have never had a student tell me they have been asked.

I have never had a student tell me they have been asked.

I would assume that as a general principle there is nothing to be gained by asking. A thuig answers "no"...so that gets us nowhere. An honest law abiding person answers "yes"...and immediately everyone is more nervous. Just seems to be no upside to ask.

I ask regularly. I've never had a permit holder who was carrying when I've asked. This time of year, many of the vehicles I stop have rifles in them. I ask it this way, "Do you have any firearms in the passenger compartment of this vehicle?"

For normal traffic enforcement, if I see a cased long gun, I'm not going to check it. If it's a local person of fecal craniality, I might verify that it's not loaded. We have a lot of poachers in the northwoods (along with a lot of deer).

One of our local district court judges threw out a stolen handgun case, after the BG answered the question "Do you have any guns in the car?" by saying there was an pistol in the trunk. BG then gave consent to search.

The gun was stolen, but the judge ruled that the search was beyond the scope of the initial stop (minor traffic violation), and ruled the gun inadmissible. His Honor, BTW, used to be a public defender, and I've often said that if I were guilty, I would want him to be my judge.

Sorry about the thread drift...

Stupid Constitution ruins everything! Sounds like the judge ruled correctly to me.

Officers, who are sworn to uphold the Constitution, are actually trained to try to get around the Constitution, by the use of pretextual stops, and searches based on "consent", or "exigent circumstances" or "officer safety" or some other exception.

Our system is upside down, instead of attempting to uphold the law, officers are expected to manipulate the facts so they will not have to follow the law. When manipulating the facts does not work, they usually blame "weak" judges. Now that judges are facing real election challanges, I think this will be a problem.

It takes a strong judge to rule against the majority, and in favor of some known BG in a case like this. But police are going to make judges pay the price.

I'll disagree with the guys above me, I think an officer asking if there are guns in the car is clearly an officer safety issue, and I doubt he was fishing for illegal or stolen weapons.

Second, how did that work out, was the gun returned to the "bad guy" or the original owner?