How to transport Shotgun in a car with no trunk?

[1Fastrider]

The gfsz extends past the school parking lot so by that reasoning I couldn't ever leave my house w/ a firearm which isn't accurate. See the CG wiki

http://wiki.calgunsfoundation.org/Gun_Free_School_Zones

[Ossa]

Your unloaded shotgun in a locked hard case is fine. Just for a little extra protection, I would also cover this case with a blanket / moving blanket to keep roving eyes from seeing it though your large rear window as you're driving.

[covingtonhouse]

If you really want to avoid hassles, transport every firearm like a handgun. Firearm in a locked case, ammo in its own locked case. That way if you do unknowingly pass through a gun free zone you are covered. Whenever I go to the range this is how I do it. I have had to take unexpected detours on the way to and from and sometimes you never know where the gun free zone is. Better to not have to worry about it. If you really feel the need to have your ammo next to your gun while driving around on city streets you might want to rethink your routes.

[xrMike]

I have to lock up my rifles and shotguns in the car now too?

F'ing open-carry dip****s.

[prometa]

Stop blaming the victim please. Exercising one's rights is not the cause for the action that occurred - politicians looking for any excuse are.

To argue that giving the politicians an excuse is a reason to NOT exercise ones rights is:

1. To give up one's rights.
2. Defeatism
3. Surrender

=8-)

In an absolutist sense, you are right. Unfortunately, we've never lived in a world where our rights are absolute, even if we claim them to be so. If you pick a fight, you get the blame when you get punched.

Yep, the politicians took away a right they shouldn't have. But, because we needed to be provocative about it, now we don't have it, will be prosecuted for exercising it, and have to spend years in the courts if we want to get it back. What an achievement.

[rexblaine]

Yep, the politicians took away a right they shouldn't have. But, because we needed to be provocative about it, now we don't have it, will be prosecuted for exercising it, and have to spend years in the courts if we want to get it back. What an achievement.

I guess it wasn't really a right then was it?

[MaHoTex]

You can thank the UOC crowd for the loss of your ability to legally do this in most of the state! They felt their right to shove UOC in the faces of the politicians was more important than preserving the rights of the rest of us to continue transporting our firearms in the manner you described.

Wow... Wonder what the hell I am going to do to get my Mosins to the range now. I do not think I even have a case long enough for that. This state is so fubar...

[dr16o49]

Wow... Wonder what the hell I am going to do to get my Mosins to the range now. I do not think I even have a case long enough for that. This state is so fubar...

same here. I have a truck. No trunk.

[paul0660]

epic thread.

a cable lock in the action of a long gun is not sufficent in a gun free school zone, but a locked soft case is.

End of question, and thread.

YOU CAN take the above onto school property, but not with ammo. YOU CAN have the above in the GFSZ, with ammo, if not on school property.

[Alex$]

AFAIK a cable lock in the action of a long gun is not sufficent in a gun free school zone, but a locked soft case is. No, I can't cite a source other than being a member here since '09 and paying very close attention to what The Right People (R) around here say.

http://www.amazon.com/Master-Lock-46...ef=pd_sbs_hi_1

Thanks for bringing up the question OP, I learned something new too.

[sfpcservice]

You can thank the UOC crowd for the loss of your ability to legally do this in most of the state! They felt their right to shove UOC in the faces of the politicians was more important than preserving the rights of the rest of us to continue transporting our firearms in the manner you described.

Next time the government wants to peak in your gun safe you should say yes, so they don't get mad and pass a law banning the 4th amendment and ruin it for "the rest of us".

[aklover_91]

Next time the government wants to peak in your gun safe you should say yes, so they don't get mad and pass a law banning the 4th amendment and ruin it for "the rest of us".

Peaking into the gunsafe isn't quite the same deal as putting on your utilikilt, strapping a gun to your hip, and pointing it out at Starbucks until the yuppies get made enough to start writing their congresspeople.

People managed to open carry fine in ca for years until someone got the bright idea to put the cake in the oven without turning it on.

Open Carry advocacy was a decent idea applied at pretty much exactly the wrong time. Road to hell, good intentions, etc

[rexblaine]

You just gotta accept that eventually there will be enough laws to make everyone an instant felon. Anyone can conceal carry, when was the last time you were frisked?

[Anchors]

Peaking into the gunsafe isn't quite the same deal as putting on your utilikilt, strapping a gun to your hip, and pointing it out at Starbucks until the yuppies get made enough to start writing their congresspeople.

People managed to open carry fine in ca for years until someone got the bright idea to put the cake in the oven without turning it on.

Open Carry advocacy was a decent idea applied at pretty much exactly the wrong time. Road to hell, good intentions, etc

I'm a pretty 2A absolutist, but I see your point. I never did open carry in CA, but as far as the wrong time to do so...pretty soon may come a time when it is the right time to do so. Unconstitutional laws be damned.

Tin-foil hats aside.

[aklover_91]

Either we have a 2nd Amendment right that shall not be infringed - or we don't. Make up your mind.

=8-)

As a practical, concrete matter, rights are abstractions that don't exist.

I certainly believe it's a right, I think advocating for it is right, I think working to advance it is right, but in real life being in the right isn't always enough.

The way the UOC protests were handled was equivalent to trying to start a campfire during the dry season with five hundred pounds of thermite.

The general idea is there, and you might not exactly be doing anything wrong, but that doesn't mean it's a smart way to go about it.

If you want to win a war you can't just be justified, you have to put some real thought into how you're going to go about winning. Running over no mans land towards a machine gun nest isn't intelligent, whether you're the good guy or not.