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Wow. What a lot of responses.
If you want to carry a rifle in your trunk, more power to you. But you'd better think even harder before you pull a rifle than a handgun.
i.e. Tyler Texas ... once that guy opened up there were calls going out to every cop car in the city about a "man with a rifle" firing at civilians.
A police cruiser pulls up as you rush into action with your AR-15. The cop doesn't know you, so he drops you with his .40. He's not going to spend much time investigating because he's charged on adrenalin and maybe he knows at least one officer is down.
This is doubly bad, because not only did you go and get yourself killed but you distracted a LEO that might have taken down the bad guy.
For us civilians who may be in a situation swarming with LEO's who aren't aware of all the players, weapons are best used strictly for close in self defense. Out in the country, of course, the rules change.
I can only remember one other case where body armor was involved, and that was the California one, and in that one the police were constantly engaged so there was no option for someone with a high powered rifle -- except to hand it over to a cop.
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