Philly.com : Man who clashed with cops over legal gun was also armed with audio recorder: "MARK FIORINO'S story has three elements that tend to get people worked up - gun rights, Philly police and YouTube.
On a mild February afternoon, Fiorino, 25, decided to walk to an AutoZone on Frankford Avenue in Northeast Philly with the .40-caliber Glock he legally owns holstered in plain view on his left hip. His stroll ended when someone called out from behind: 'Yo, Junior, what are you doing?'
Fiorino wheeled and saw Sgt. Michael Dougherty aiming a handgun at him.
What happened next would be hard to believe, except that Fiorino audio-recorded all of it: a tense, profanity-laced, 40-minute encounter with cops who told him that what he was doing - openly carrying a gun on the city's streets - was against the law.
'Do you know you can't openly carry here in Philadelphia?' Dougherty asked, according to the YouTube clip.'Yes, you can, if you have a license to carry firearms,' Fiorino said. 'It's Directive 137. It's your own internal directive.'
The cops, department officials later admitted, were wrong. They didn't know that a person who has a license to carry a firearm can openly carry it in the city"
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