[ryanfx]

Originally Posted by BigAls87Z28

I thought it was a law as well, checks and balances type of thing. You could pull the serial number off the gun and what it clocked you at. The gun is a piece of evidence, is it not? If its admisiable in court, then it has the ability to be checked for validation, no? And said validation can be brought up to question in a trial, if you so wanted to take it that far.
Give me a reason they CANT show you the gun. Not to pull this line out, but the police work for the people, at least thats how its supposed to work.

I never said that it's not admissible in court, or not a piece of evidence. One good reason for not showing you the gun is many times officers don't lock in speeds on the gun to show a short distance tracking of you. For example, "vehicle was paced for 1/4 mile doing apx 75 and then passed a vehicle on the right, accelerating to a maximum of 83 mph".

The validation can be used in trial but the serial numbers are marked by the officer and checked that way. Many officers are trained to issue speeding tickets based on sight alone, radar guns aren't required to give you a speeding ticket.