Reply #100: I can answer.

[mvccd1000]

"Is there some way for the police -- or anyone else -- to know whether a person wandering the streets while festooned in firearms is actually *entitled* to do so?"

The answer is nearly always NO.

Just as the police cannot know whether any person walking down the street possesses the DNA they have recovered from three recent rape/murder victims and one rape survivor.

Of course, some people seem to think that police should be able to stop everyone with a gun and ascertain whether that person is a criminal. Perhaps those same people feel the police should also be able to take a DNA sample from everyone in my town to see if they possess DNA that matches that found in the victims?

Luckily, in my country some of our rights are still protected.