And once posted in the local gossip group, they're now forced to deal with it

This is probably the correct answer. I drove around without a front license plate for over 4 years (my state requires front and back) since my car didn't come with screws for a front mount. It was one of those things I put on my to-do list but never got around to and eventually just kind of forgot about it.

Anyway, I live close to a couple of police stations (I live near a border to another city, so my city and the next city have PDs within a couple miles of each other) and never got pulled over. Hell, I have even went through several traffic stops over the years and none of them ever said a word to me. A few months ago I finally ran into a cop that actually gave a shit and pulled me over. He was obviously a new recruit, as he was very young and did everything very by-the-book. I got a warning and the next day I ordered a mount for my other plate, but I was just amazed I'd gone so many years without any cop caring. I figured it was because most cops just can't be bothered to care about small shit like that. Though, if I was a minority (I'm in the US), it'd probably be a different story.

Also sov cits are probably more likely than the average driver to be carrying concealed weapons and stuff, since they don't think the law applies to them.

Ever hear one of these guys babbling in front of a cop/judge? They think by speaking the exact phrase of faux-legal gibberish they can magically unlock "immunity from law". They just repeat the same phrase in as many different word combinations as possible desperately searching for the right incantation

It never works but being impervious to reality or reason is basically the hill they are willing to die on in order to gain online clout with a niche group of weirdos who for some reason trigger the dopamine receptors in their glass-smooth brains by feeling collectively intransigent together

Unless they’re driving their vehicle in the grocery store, I don’t think it counts, or something

Seems like burning gas that you bought at a gas station is commerce.

Woah, what did Senegal do to deserve that?!?

I don't get why they advertise themselves. You'll blend in a lot more if you use a normal plate and simply never renew the registration. You rarely get pulled over for this and ticket is so minor that it's easy to just ignore it and never show up to court. But more often than not the cop will just tell you to renew it ASAP and send you on your way. Be polite, apologize, don't argue/mention any sovern citizen bullshit, and most importantly: don't be brown-skinned, and usually they'll just let you go without even so much of a warning.

Wow haha. I would love to see one but they're not really a thing here I don't think.

That's the most hilarious part.

Does it come with a page of stamps? I'm fresh out.

Somebody will tell him what magic words to utter to make the cops go away.

So this was percolating in my brain for awhile, these dense people have a hard time understanding the law but it's very easy to explain even if they magically are a sovereign citizen which means they don't have to do all the regular things humans do in a society.

If you are driving on publicly funded roads that you didn't contribute to with taxes and did not licence your vehicle to drive on, you are just trespassing. Your options are: pay the fee/fine for trespassing, and then stay off the roads you don't own, or buy the "ticket" (pay your taxes and ensure your vehicle is licenced.).

What's the response to that? Like I know they think a lot of weird and crazy stuff, but I get why they don't understand some of it, bevause it is complicated and based on law and generations of social contracts. This isn't that. This is "you can't trespass, no matter how sovereign you are."

Definitely the second one.

If you don't use exactly the right words, the spell is broken. You have to cast it properly for it to work.

As always, I welcome any corrections from those who think they can keep this shit straighter than I can, but the gist as I understand it is this:

Many of them actually believe the entire legal regime of the united states is actually a function of private commercial law and that the "real" government is a sort of suppressed by a corporation that was created under its rules, so if they can successfully opt out of their involuntary commercial relationship with the "Corporation" that they are not bound by its rules, including taxes. Because they're so very smart, they understand you have to be careful, so making sure that you explain that you're not engaging in "Commerce" as the corporation's founding document states is important so they don't rope you back in. The US Constitution gives the federal government the right to govern "Interstate Commerce" so in the spirit of the law being a series of magical incantations, they want to keep consistent. The various US states are either in league with, or under the thumb of, the "corporation."