When I started this firearms and self defense project I made a commitment to living by the four rules of gun safety and the five rules of concealed carry. Well, over the weekend, a commenter, Pat, offered this addition to the five rules of concealed carry, and I thought it needed posting.
#6: As soon as you encounter police, regardless of whether you used your firearm or not, exercise your right to silence, and request a lawyer. Immediately.
No exceptions.
I think that’s great advice. As this law professor puts it: never talk to the police.
Like the rest of the Bill of Rights, there’s a reason the Fifth Amendment exists. You can never, ever help yourself by talking to the police. You can only hurt yourself.
And never let them in your casa. Even if they have a warrant; make them break the door down (a former LEO told me that; I’m not kidding).
Seriously. Never even open the door for them; they can use any excuse to invent PC (Probable Cause) from sights, smells, noises they have access to once the door is open. Make them break it down.
P.s.
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Damn, Diablo. I’d never heard that but it makes perfect sense. And thanks for the ammo tip.
This former Texas Sheriff said that you are under no legal obligation to open the door for the Po-Po. If they have a warrant they can and will break the door down; if they don’t have said warrant then they will go away. But, he continued, if you open that goddamn door they will find a reason to enter and arrest (they will invent the PC if necessary…)
On the ammo-site: I’ve bought 223/5.56 ammo from them for next to nothing. That’s what I shoot the most… that and 7.62X39mm.
Lock & Load!