TM7, I've been through the same I-91 checkpoint many times, and have been stopped a couple of times and asked a couple of questions. One was for my drivers license. The other, where was I going. I had two rifles, a shotgun (all empty with actions open), and a loaded handgun in the car, in plain sight. My pickup had Vermont tags. The officer saw those guns, for certain--and never even mentioned them. My having those there, or anywhere else in Vermont, is my constitutional right, both nationally and in the State of Vermont. This was a routine stop, conducted on every car passing that checkpoint that day. As a US citizen (armed most of the time) a US veteran, and a native Vermonter I don't object at all to the Border Patrol doing their job at that checkpoint. These days, unless you've got something to hide (do you, TM??) I don't see the problem at all. There's a war on, remember? That checkpoint is on a main route to both Boston and New York, coming from Canada. If you think that everyone coming down from Canada is a tourist, then you're pretty naive. I for one am glad that DHS is trying to do their job at least somewhere. Of course, anyone trying to smuggle illegal aliens into a "sanctuary city" like Burlington or Brattleboro, or onto some Vermont farm, could certainly be expected to whine that their "civil liberties" were being infringed. Why these checks are being conducted, at certain times, is probably for a good reason, in the interests of national security at that particular time. Too bad they were so lax at the airport in NYC a week or so ago. America got lucky that time.
