OK, this has been a total waste of perfectly good electrons.
My question related to police powers, rights of privacy, protection from illegal search and seizure and constitutional guarantees of rights. Most every response somehow focuses in on guns, either as inherently evil or as justification for violation of presumably innocent, law-abiding individuals rights and privacy by the police.
I disagree that such searches are justified by the fact that the subject is a licensed, legal owner of registered firearms, but all of you seem to feel otherwise about that. The initial inspection of the