in my experiance you would be better off being pulled over by the S019 as they lience the firearms as well as responding to the criminal use of firearms, so they would be able to tell someone hunting on farmers land from some idot running around a public place and mis-using a firearm. but you are right, if normal plod saw you, then calls the armed response lot...then who knows. In my case, comming back from the club, i had a co2 handgun in my boot, plod searched the car found it, even though i told them i had a reasonable excuse to carry it, (comming back from the gunclub) they went total men