-=> Quoting Daniel Digriz to Steve Gunhouse on 06-11-96  19:19 <=-
 Re: Dusters?
 DD> STEVE GUNHOUSE dared to blither forth the following to CLOYCE OSBORN:
 SG> I've mentioned it before, out here we have something refered
 SG> to as a car gun. Anyone can legally carry a longarm in their
 SG> car any time - except of course on military bases and such.
 DD> The problem, as I see it, for those of us wishing to stay strictly
 DD> legal, is threefold:
 DD> 1) As I understand it - one can carry this long arm in the
 DD> car but cannot have the ammunition within reach of the driver.
Not true here - I can't tell where you're posting from. Our law says
absolutely nothing about ammo - in the sense that it says nothing at all.
There is simply no law restricting longarms in Texas.
 DD> 2) There is also the other problem of anti-gun police, who tend to
 DD> operate in that vague interpretation of concealed which says, "If an
 DD> officer can possibly interpret the placement of a 'civilian's' weapon
 DD> as concealed - or partly concealed, he will, and the word of any two
 DD> officers will stand up in court against a 'mere civilian'."
I can't help with the cops. Again, our law says nothing at all, so a long
arm can be either visible or concealed. I gather you must be in one of
those states which consider concealment as somehow underhanded, then?
 DD> 3) Finally, there is the problem of going into Walmart or some such,
 DD> and having some trash break the window and take the unconcealed
 DD> longarm!
 DD> Ideas?
The most obvious solution would be to conceal it just before you leave
the car. You could do this in some inconspicuous manner, as (if it's on
the seat or floor or some such) simply throwing something over it. If you
do it well, it may look completely natural to someone watching from a
distance. The alternative is to secure it somehow, so that it would
*obviously* be too difficult to take - but I'm not sure how you'd do
that.
Steve
... I was too weak to defend, so I attacked. - Robert E. Lee
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