Petition to allow Radar Detectors in VA
 

You know, I don't see why VA won’t allow radar detectors. With all the new technology emerging, many of them have updates for traffic, emergencies, road constructions etc. And with the total lack of intelect that Virginia uses when doing road construction, one might think it could help avoid traffic accidents to some degree; oh, and speed traps. :) Anyway, I'm curious if there is a way to start a petition for the use of RD's in VA? Just a thought. Anyone have input? :shakes head:

So I started a petition for this. Please sign it.
http://www.change.org/petitions/stat...adar-detectors

change.org maybe?

hmmmm... I'll check it out.

I THINK if you buy the Passport 9500iX it has a Radar detector detector detector...

The police can find you because your radar detector emits a frequency that they pick up with their detector detector... And again, I THINK the 9500iX has a detector for their detectors and it shuts the unit off when it detects them...


JEEZUS I typed in "detect/detector" a lot...

interesting.. so theres no point in having a radar detector??

Hmmm? The purpose of it turning off is so you don't get fined for having one in VA and DC... If it turns off, I guess you know there is a cop, LOL

Honestly, best bet, get a battery operated one, and if you see a cop, chuck it in the glove box, if it's in the glove box, and off they can't give you a ticket

I love it. I can walk around with my gun on my hip all over VA and cops don't care (it's legal), but if I have my radar detector on the SWAT team will pull me out of my car and beat me to death. :bowrofl:

your weapon doesn't take $$ out of the state's pocket, a radar detector could, state doesn't like not making $$ off it's citizens, that goes 100x for VA, the republic of ludicrous taxation.

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For a long time I had hoped they would lift the ban. I'm going to borrow a friends 9500 for a road trip at the end of the month and I'll see how it works, as far as shutting off if detected.

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I assume you just created this petition
Allow VA Residents To Use Radar Detectors

Thank you for stepping up and doing so, I'm sharing this with my friends and will get many signatures!

Exactly! :tup:

please let me know. I've looked into actual Mil-spec jammers, but I can't validate they actually work. :shakes head:

They will just get you into even more trouble. :icon17:

Thanks! yeah, I just updated the post today. I'm researching what arguements other states have used. The big issue might be that VA is a Common Wealth; i.e, a "do what I say, you have no rights to show how crooked we are!" state. Not really sure. I'll keep you posted though and any other argument is helpful. :tiphat:

Another law from the future Good ole U.F.A. (United Fascists of America). And if they had their way, you wouldn't have that gun on your hip either.

Think its bad in VA? Try New York City, state and many northeastern states.
Bloomberg is a dictator. Sell too much soda in NY? get fined. Smoke in your house. get fined, smoke on the street? Get fined, stand in a corner more than 5 minutes, Stop and Frisk...

If you drive the legal speed limit then yes.

Who drives the speed limit? :icon08:

I only follow the speed limit in neighborhoods. Otherwise it's 5-10 or more over.

Signed! I've thought about getting a radar detector, but not yet ready to spend a couple hundred bucks for one of the good ones. Tried using an old one my sister had, but that thing just kept going off every 5 mins and was pretty much useless.

Escort Passport 9500iX, it has GPS to recognize where you're getting the same exact signal... Pass it three times, auto mutes for just that ONE frequency and you won't have it go off anymore! (You can override it too, you can force it to ignore and unblock certain locations

More than likely they will never allow dectors, as it could reduce their revenue generator, state and local governments are already strapped for cash.

Thanks for signing the petition. Please help spread the word! :tup:

If they won't drop the legal tint limit from 50% to 35% we're never going to get legal radar detectors. :icon17:

Probably true...but it's worth trying. I think its also important to note that VA denied for months that they signed in a new law that allowed them to make you pay for a "20 over" speeding ticket for 3 years in a row. They denied that alligation for months in 2009 (or 2008) even to the press. VA residents called the BS flag that it was unconstitutional to confict anyone of the same crime 3 times. After a lot of investigation, Oh, suddenly we find out that the Fairfax court house needs 40 million in upgrades and one of the most expensive upgrades is the Traffic Ticket section- They pump people through there faster than McDonalds. Then the law was revoked and they had to pay people back the $ they had taken for a few years on the same conviction. They lied about it on TV and to its people. Dont get me wrong, I'm not against the VA state police or our local PD's. I just think I should be allowed to play by the same rules since their JOB is paid for and in respect to support me, the tax payer. :eek:
Ok, I just fell off my soapbox...I'm done. :)

I'd like to take this time to say F*** YOU, Fairfax County, and your personal property taxes. :bowrofl:

LMFAO! :icon18::icon18::icon18: That is why I moved to Fredericksburg, VA. :excited: Fewer tickets for local drives.

They tried this in 2010.

LIS > Bill Tracking > HB674 > 2010 session

If Colorado and Washington can make recreational pot use legal...I would love to believe this stupid commonwealth could lift a ban on radar detectors.

recreational pot is a potential tax windfall for those states, allowing radar detectors is kinda the opposite, so will never happen.

Perhaps, VA could just issue a liscensing fee for folks who want ot get a radar detector, you pay an initial registration fee and then pay annually for the "privilige" of owning/using one after that. Anyone caught with an unlicensed radar detector pays big fine. Probably the only way something like that could work since it would be a revenue generator for the state, if the state can't make $$ on it, then it's a "bad" idea so if they can be convinced hat it can have a monetary benefit to them, they might go for it.

Your second to last sentence makes me think of this:

"You're a public servant. Get me a glass of water!"

As someone who thinks its unconstitutional to have to get a permit to carry concealed, I don't want to pay a licensing fee just to be able to use a radar detector.

signed it :)

Thats it....

this is a good idea. I think this is how the new HOV lane extension is going to work as well. If you are not an HOV car, you can pay to use it.

thanks so much!:tup:

In VA is where most of the Insurance Headquarters are like USAA.

HQ for USAA is San Antonio.

I believe in permits because it provides an educational process that all gun owners should have. Just not in the permit renewal which in my book is unjust taxation. That said. Va laws concerning radars are definitely unconstitutional.
if i were a Va resident? I'd put my hancock on that shyt.