What does being nice have to do with it? Probation sentences get handed down to some very good people all the time.I am currently on supervised Probation for a misdemeanor driving while license revoked. From day 1 I have been the nicest a person could possibly be to my P.O. Well on her first home visit she comes in and tells me I must remove every knife and gun and bow and arrow from my home. I had already moved my gun to a relative who put them in his gun safe.
So, the parameters have been set. You acknowledge that you were informed of the weapons directive. NO WEAPONS ALLOWED.For 6 years I have made a living selling survival weapons online so I would say I had at the least 120 knives in my work room. I also had my bow and arrow stored there also. At that time I did not know my probation required me to remove any thing that can be deemed a weapon. I had my expensive knives hanging on my walls of my office. My PO told me that I had remove everything. So, I did. My wife and I searched every nook and cranny of our home and removed everything we had to a relatives home and had them lock them in their safe. Saturday my PO calls and says she will be coming by Monday before 12pm so I needed to be there. I said fine and thanked her for letting me know so I would be sure I was home.
We could argue that now you know why the handcuffs were utilized. For your safety as well as the officers'. Remember when you acknowledged an understanding of no weapons allowed in the home? Just because you were arrested for a non-violent offense, does not mean that you are. The fact that you guys made a very ill advised decision to bring a firearm into the home, could easily create the perception that you are attempting to continue your handling of weapons and that the officer's safety may continue to be in jeopardy....After searching for about 10 minutes one of the cops came to the living room and asked why I didnt inform him there was a firearm on the top shelf of our walk in closet, hidden under some towels. I told him I had no idea what he was talking about. (Honestly I didnt) ....then my wife spoke up and told him she had put her gun there after work on Friday. It is her gun and its registered to her legally. He asked her if she knew I wasnt supposed to be anywhere that i could access a firearm. She said she did not know that applied to her pistol because she usually leaves it in the car.
I'm willing to bet that the race of the perpetrator would not have changed the dynamics of your narrative....not to long ago at another salon a lady was leaving and while she was locking up the salon, a African American slashed her throat and took her purse. That woman died over $75.00 that was in her purse.
So, in the next two days, she never left the house? Never went anywhere that called for her to get in the car? After all, throat slashing, African American women don't just lurk outside of beauty salons. How did she not know that you would get in trouble for where she stored the firearm? It was under towels in a walk in closet!!! Unless you don't take showers, you could access this weapon with ease.The Friday before they searched she forgot to remove it from her purse so when she went inside her side of the closet she just put it under some of her clothes ect. She honestly did not know that could get me in trouble. The cop told her as long as it come back registered in her name he would leave it unloaded and she could go lock it up anywhere as long as i didn't have access to it.
That sucks. In all honesty, you could be telling the truth about the whole incident. It does not make a difference. You violated the conditions of your probation conditions on at least three separate items. The fact is, even if you did not intend on violating your probation, you did. For most people on probation, there is a learning curve that they need to adapt to. In you case, it seems as if what you failed to understand about how the officer has to go into the home anticipating the worst, has come to bite you in the butt.My PO decided to search our garage. I thought that would be fine until she came back with 2 unfinished survival spears that neither my wife or I remembered being there. Actually when I put them there they were intended to be thrown away because the customer changed his mind. Unfinished, I put them out to be thrown away. Unfortunately the had fallen over behind my huge toolbox and I forgot about them....until she told me where she found them.
The fact that you two in essence swore that your home was weapon free only to have a firearm in free reach if one chose to access it will serve as a reason to validate handcuffing your wife. You should get a letter informing you of the leave to file a violation of your probation. Get yourself an attorney ASAP.

