Quote Originally Posted by Miranda
I can guarantee you that hardly any of them know what the laws are. Local level law enforcement officers are not required to know anything beyond their own version of basic training, which is laughable at best. As one of the undergrad research projects for my CJ degree, I got involved with a study that was surveying local law enforcement awareness on a slew of community policing-oriented topics (which was, in some respects, in response to the botched police no-knock raid). More frightening than the lack of consistent knowledge about applicable gun statutes (most of that knowledge being from whatever pocket size statute guide the particular officer happened to have invested in) was the often completely erroneous understanding of probable cause searches and other matters of pre-arrest due process protocols.

These are the reasons there needs to be a bigger push for the "careerification," as it were, of policing... so that higher education and a more accurate understanding of the law becomes the norm, rather than the exception.
No disrespect since I don't know you, but all that was a bunch of hog wash IMO.

I KNOW for a fact that LEOs are REQUIRED in order to receive their certification to take a ton of tests. One of those tests is about gun laws. I know this as fact. So if they forget or cheated during that test, they are no different than 99% of any other graduate. But for someone to come out and say that LEOs don't know about "gun laws" is really not accurate at all.

Bottomline is that if someone took the time to read this very thread, they would know the lion's share of what they need to know about applicable GA gun laws.....and this is only after a few days of a bunch of us posting back and forth. LEOs take hours worth of classroom and real life training about this very subject. The laws really haven't changed over the years at their core, so really there isn't that much to have to remember so long as you keep up with current events.