United States v. Shaquille Robinson

PAMELA HARRIS, Circuit Judge,

with whom GREGORY, Chief Judge, DIANA GRIBBON MOTZ, Circuit Judge, and DAVIS, Senior Circuit Judge, join, dissenting:

In many jurisdictions and for many years, police officers could assume that anyone carrying a concealed firearm was up to no good. Because public possession of guns was prohibited or tightly regulated, concealed firearms were hallmarks of criminal activity, deadly weapons carried by law-breakers to facilitate their crimes. So it followed, without much need for elaboration, that if a suspect legally stopped by the police was carrying a gun, then he…