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Originally Posted by wutamess
Your entire post is an hypothetical. To sort of answer your question...
If I had the police called on me because I was in my backyard shooting and they saw a completely different gun... Yes, I deserve to get my things seized if they're in plain sight INSIDE MY HOUSE. Furthermore, in most cases, I deserve to get my home SEARCHED if I'm shooting firearms outside in public.
I gave them probable cause with my shooting stupidity.
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Well congratulations, you've granted the local smokies more authority than the Constitution provides them. At least to this point, under our founding document, if the officer didn't directly observe the illegal conduct and doesn't have a search warrant, he's going to need your consent to that search.
Constitutional liberties can be pesky things for government officials. It sucks that they may have to take an extra step here and there to keep from destroying people's property.
You should probably send a few bucks to Barack, he could use your support.