At the northeast corner of White Spar Road and Copper Basin Road in the city of Prescott, a Prescott Police Department Flock Safety ALPR camera sits on the traffic signal pole, facing north over the northbound lane.
Directly behind it is High Country Guns and Knives, complete with a large sign that declares: “Guns Are Why America Is Still Free.”
The store has three ways in and out. One entrance is on Copper Basin Road. The other two sit right along White Spar Road — the first only 55 feet from the camera, the second about 170 feet away. Both are comfortably within the Flock’s usual working range.
So while you’re deciding between a new gun, a knife, or the latest optic, the camera is quietly photographing and logging every plate that turns into the lot. It doesn’t ask what you’re buying. It doesn’t care if you’re a collector, a hunter, or just browsing. It just files the visit away for later searching.
Practical advice for the discretion-minded:
If you’d rather not have your arrival noted, skip the two White Spar Road driveways the camera is staring at. Use the Copper Basin Road entrance instead. Approach from a direction the lens isn’t covering. Arrive like someone who read a slightly paranoid blog post.
A gun shop is a perfectly legal destination. The Flock camera treats it like every other driveway it watches — with complete impartiality and zero sense of humor.
Another public road, another sensitive door, another set of plates added to the permanent record.
Art of Surveillance 
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