No one is more cooperative with LEO than me. I have more friends that are LEO than I can count. I train with them, I train under them, yada, yada, yada. Of course everything you said makes sense and is exactly what I would do if I could afford to have all the cool toys you have.
That said, there is a big difference between the scenario you are describing and the scenario that went down in Montana. Or Randy Weaver. Or those goofy bastards in Wyoming or wherever a few years ago. W're not talking about some cops wanting to make sure you have your paperwork. We are talking about a government agency with a history of being weaponized ( that could be any 3 letter agency these days though) confiscating 4473s. Why am I the only guy here who seems to understand the ramifications of the IRS beginning to confiscate 4473s from gun dealers ? Biden just hired 87,000 more of these people. Biden directed the head of the DOJ to target gun dealers. This is all provably true and many of you have participated in conversations about it. Now we are going to normalize the IRS seizing 4473s from gun dealers ? And no one seems to think that's a problem ?
I think I must be in the twilight zone. I knew this morning when I got halfway to work before realizing I didn't even have a knife on me that today was going to be a F'ed up day. About noon I fell about 4 feet, hitting the steel on my trailer on the way down, off the back of my work truck and I can barely move right now. I should have turned around this morning and went back home and called in a week of vacation. The world is spinning backwards on it's axis or something.