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alcohol use
JTH:
--- Quote from: smitty81 on September 26, 2012, 10:22:43 AM ---It says that you can not carry if you have alcohol in your system.
Let's say that I go to a friends house for a beer. Can I lock my firearm up in my jeep in the cargo area and still drive legally (not intoxicated).
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If your firearm is locked up, and the ammunition is separate from the firearm, you are no longer carrying concealed. Instead, you are transporting a firearm according to allowed state and federal law.
I happen to always have a small transport safe in my car at all times for cases when I am forced to go into a place of business that doesn't allow self-defense tools. If at some time I would happen to have some alcohol at a time I didn't expect (unlikely, but possible), I can also use that safe to secure my firearm once I have unloaded it (and separated the ammunition from the gun by putting it in a bag in the back of the car, NOT in the safe)---and suddenly, I'm not carrying concealed but instead merely transporting an unloaded firearm.
Different rules.
smitty81:
--- Quote from: jthhapkido on September 26, 2012, 02:28:02 PM ---
If your firearm is locked up, and the ammunition is separate from the firearm, you are no longer carrying concealed. Instead, you are transporting a firearm according to allowed state and federal law.
I happen to always have a small transport safe in my car at all times for cases when I am forced to go into a place of business that doesn't allow self-defense tools. If at some time I would happen to have some alcohol at a time I didn't expect (unlikely, but possible), I can also use that safe to secure my firearm once I have unloaded it (and separated the ammunition from the gun by putting it in a bag in the back of the car, NOT in the safe)---and suddenly, I'm not carrying concealed but instead merely transporting an unloaded firearm.
Different rules.
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Thanks for the great info. I bought one of those cable tie down hand gun safes for my jeep. I put it back by the spare wheel. Good to know I can throw it in there and put the magazine in the glove box and should be ok.
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