investigation at close range, when the officer remains particularly vulnerable ... [and] must make a quick decision as to how to protect himself and others from possible danger.” Long, 463 U.S. at 1052, 103 S.Ct. 3469 (internal quotation marks and citation omitted). Officer Alton did not have time to perform a close inspection of Vinton’s sheathed knife to determine precisely how dangerous it was. Nor was Officer Alton required to accept Vinton’s claim that he used the knife only for fishing with his grandfather. For one, Alton observed no other fishing equipment in the car that might have corroborated this story. See Suppression Tr. at 14, 71. But regardless, even a lawfully-possessed fishing knife can be used as a dangerous weapon. See Long, 463 U.S. at 1052 n. 16, 103 S.Ct. 3469 (<HOLDING>). Moreover, there was an additional reason for
holding that the protective sweep of a van was lawful where officers stopped the van on reasonable suspicion that the driver had just committed an armed bank robbery and officers could not see inside the van to determine whether other occupants posed a danger to them holding that it is not unreasonable to believe that burglars can be armed and dangerous holding that an officer must be able to point to particular facts from which he reasonably inferred that the individual was armed and dangerous holding that possession of lawful hunting knife contributed to reasonable suspicion that driver was armed and dangerous holding that it would be clearly unreasonable to deny a police officer the ability to neutralize the threat of physical harm if he has reasonable suspicion that a suspect is armed and dangerous