Fuller

BACKGROUND

The parties do not dispute the facts. Fuller, on his way to Canada, stopped at the Eastport, Idaho, Port of Entry. Fuller told the United States Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) officers that he was an off-duty law enforcement officer and asked whether he could store his weapon at the Port of Entry while he was in Canada. Because Canada for- bids weapons from entering its country, the Port of Entry had a practice of storing guns owned by law enforcement officers who were entering Canada.

Before agreeing to store Fuller’s weapon, CBP officers asked to view Fuller’s law enforcement credentials, and Fuller obliged. His credentials consisted of a leather wallet (to which was affixed a metal badge in the shape of a star embossed with an eagle and enclosed within a circle carrying the words “Special Response Agent”) and an identification card in the wallet. The front of the identification card carried the head- line, “United States Special Response Department Anti- Terrorism Unit.” The same eagle seal found on the metal star appears on the left side of the identification card. The middle of the card contains the name “L. Fuller” on one line and UNITED STATES v. FULLER …