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- From: rboudrie@chpc.org (Rob Boudrie)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Carrying Weapons Laws - Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.222957.13567@chpc.org>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 13:46:11 GMT
- Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Center For High Perf. Computing of WPI; Marlboro Ma
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- #
- #The state regs are irrelevant; Federal law clearly states that you
- #can transport your firearms, as long as they are unloaded and either
- #in a locked case or in a compartment not accessible from the
- #passenger compartment, and as long as you can legally possess them
- #at your points of origination and destination. (See the aforementioned
- #reference for the actual text of the law.)
- #
- # James
-
- Except in Illinois where the state supreme court has ruled that the
- federal law protects the driver from CRIMINAL prosecution, but that the
- police are not obligated to return lawfully stowed in transit guns they
- confiscate.
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