Posted: 2/26/2006 4:31:32 PM EDT
| Greetings. Did a search that turned up nothing. A question about a trunk long gun. What does the law (LV, N. LV, Henderson, etc.) say about keeping it loaded? If there are rounds in the magazine and none in the chamber is it loaded? |
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don't see where B.C. defines unloaded, but they say unloaded and knocked down or cased. N.L.V. seperates rifles and shotguns from the dangerous or deadly weapon definition as long as it is being transported for hunting or legitimate sport. state law : rifle and shotgun are unloaded as long as there is not a round in the chamber NRS. chapter 503 |
Wp, Knowing that NLV and BC are more strict with respect to gun laws, do you mean that you don't have to be transporting the long gun to a range or sport activity in LV areas other than NVL and BC?
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Now, here's a question that's bugged me for awhile. Does having your pistol in the range bag count as Carrying Concealed? If having a pistol in your backpack or purse is Carrying Concealed, and seeing as how a Range Bag is somehow technically not a purse somehow, wouldn't lumping around a pistol in your range bag that's not on your CCW be a Class 3 Felony? This has bugged me for years. |
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Last year I posted the question What Defines a Loaded Gun? I posted the question here in the NVHTF because several years ago there was a change in Nevada statute defining loaded firearms. I wasn't asking about treating "every gun as if it were loaded," I wanted to know what people considered a loaded or unloaded gun under the law. Nevada statute used to define an "unloaded" gun as a firearm that does not contain an unexpended round of ammunition in the chamber regardless of the fact that there is a loaded magazine in the gun. I don't understand why the law was changed from reflecting proper nomenclature to what it is now. I'm with Fish and Game, if there is not a live round in the chamber the gun is NOT loaded. If it works for rifle and shotguns it should work for handguns as well. They can't have it both ways. |
The problem is that the term can be defined in a statute, and the term only applies to that statute. An example: The term "firearm" is defined as one using combustive or explosive materials in order to fire a projectile.in NRS 202.253
NRS 202.265 specifically includes paint, pellet, and BB guns as firearms in this statute:
So sometimes it depends on the specific statute. NRS 503.165 is the only statute that I am aware of that defines a "loaded" firearm:
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