Lost a peice of kit - handcuff key

[glocktenman]

In Florida if you are taken into custody by the po po, put in handcuffs and have a cuff key concealed on you it is a felony!

 

[Don Rearic]

Well, if you have a spare set of keys in your pocket and on those keys there is a handcuff key, that, too, is "concealed."

Guess people should move from Florida.

 

[Cpl Punishment]

Or just tell them about the key so they can remove it and you don't get a felony charge.

You're not likely to E&E from an actual po-po capture in the US. Best to E&E beforehand.

 

[Don Rearic]

A lot of the fear-mongering gets way overblown in threads like this. A whole lot of B.S. to which people get their ass up on their back and counter - "Yeah! You'll think it is 'B.S.' when you get charged buddy!"

I just don't go around breaking the law so I really don't have too many concerns about other people's concerns. I mean, I don't go to bars for one thing. If you want to avoid over 75% of self-defense situations and 75% or more possibility for law enforcement contact in your life, drink at home. Right there you have negated so much of what so many people envision in their pseudo cautionary posts.

 

[Cpl Punishment]

LOL.

Isn't this meant as more of a "shakedown of the gringos in Tijuana" thing, anyway?

 

[glocktenman]

Well, if you have a spare set of keys in your pocket and on those keys there is a handcuff key, that, too, is "concealed."

Guess people should move from Florida.

On a key chain/ring is an exception.

 

[Don Rearic]

Can you cite the law containing the exception, please?

 

[dougo83]

This worries me a lot. I have been in LE for 28 years and never seen anyone except LE officers and escaping prisoners/persons who beleive they may be arrested, that had need of a handcuff key for any legit reason. Is this the type of persona we knife users want to project to the rest of the knife hating world?

I know people here did not make this but this is a poor choice of topics that the public can view.

This is not meant to provoke an argument just my thoughts.


This is a quote from the sellers site, this leads me to believe there is only one reason to market this:

"Existing users of the handcuff key usually wear between 4 and 12 keys on their person. In various test situations, various searches by seasoned law enforcement personnel typically only finds a few of the keys".

I think it is purely ridiculous to imply that only cops have a need for cuff keys or that only criminals would be interested in carrying a spare. I carry one on my keychain for the reasons mentioned. If, for some reason, I am in handcuffs, I can PROMISE you that I don't belong in them. I don't break the law to the extent that I would be arrested, so it would definitely be a less than scrupulous individual trying to cuff me, not a cop.

I have a pair for in the case of home invasion, robbery or the like. I don't carry them with me outside the house.

Be careful with that down here, shotty, not expressly legal. I would imagine you're better of killing the invader than getting hit for false imprisonment, kidnapping, etc...