bull!  you're operating at a power high enough to actually interfere
with radar guns in that case, which is illegal, and you are actually
going to be interfering with the use of speed guns!  you'll actually be
making it harder to catch people as the signal levels will have to be
comparable or higher than the signal strength of a reflected signal from
a speed gun pointed at a vehicle.

yes, you will actually be obstructing justice, and frankly you deserve
to be charged for the offense, as a felony!  there are gadgets that
claim to "jam" radar guns and that are legal, because they work at too
low a power to actually work, those that actually do work are illegal
because of the power level and because it's an obstruction of justice.
manufacturers who fit into the second class are quickly arrested and get
to live in a federal prison, those that make bogus equipment are
tolerated, even though it's fraud (because the device doesn't work)
because those in power think it's funny to watch speeders get ripped off
and have a false sense of security.  note that the devices that do not
work actually encourage speeding, and yet law enforcement chooses not to
arrest the manufacturer and seller who are committing fraud and making
the roads more dangerous, because they are also increasing the
governments income from speeding tickets.  corruption at it's finest.
it makes the roads more dangerous, and makes people money, but it makes
"the right" people money so the fraud is usually allowed.

the same arguments about obstruction of justice and encouraging rather
than stopping speeders also apply to lasers used to fool laser speed
guns, not to mention the potential injury threat depending on the
operator not knowing what they are doing and using to powerful a laser.
even if it's relatively low power like in a laser speed gun, do you
think it's safe to look right at?  do you suppose a laser speed gun is
safe to look right at from close range, like if you're looking at it?
what do you suppose happens when somebody's kid finds your laser box on
the side of the road and takes it home and stares at it or takes it
apart, or plays with it and accidentally turns up the laser power?
blindness, that's what happens, or at least some vision damage, even if
it's "only" a permanent blind spot, which they may be too afraid to tell
their parents about, and then they get a drivers license even though
they have an undiagnosed vision problem, now that's safety!

David VanHorn wrote:
>
> At 12:39 PM 6/15/2004 -0700, Shawn Wilton wrote:
>
> >If you're licensed for it, sure.  Why do you think a radar gun operator
> >is required to be licensed by the FCC to operate said equipment?
>
> Because it's operating at a higher power.
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