The Open Carry Shotgun Thread

[NateIU10]

Originally Posted by Steelman

I trust the NRA about as far as Gary Coleman can throw them.


I hate to bug Kirk. He provides so much free advice to dozens of gun boards.

It's not abut trusting the NRA, those pamphlets are just the states laws, all in one place to clear it up for people. That is all.

[Steelman]

Originally Posted by NateIU10

It's not abut trusting the NRA, those pamphlets are just the states laws, all in one place to clear it up for people. That is all.

Paging Kirk Freeman.

It's an optional page.

[Soundslikejosh]

Well I didn't bother to do the foot work, but at the end of the NRA's summarization of the IN state laws, they provide references to all the ICs they used, and on the IN.gov site there is a little code finder thing on the bottom left, you could semi-easily double check their info/interpretation. I have wondered about their synopsis before, and it's good that the list the sources so you can check them.

[rhino]

Originally Posted by Steelman

I'm pretty damn sure that carrying an uncased loaded shotgun in the passenger seat of my Japanese sissy car is illegal.

<SNIP>

I've been wrong once before.

Better add one to your list. You're wrong again.

[Steelman]

Originally Posted by rhino

Better add one to your list. You're wrong again.

Are you willing to pony up the cash for my legal defense?

[Soundslikejosh]

The purple pachyderm has spoken!

[NateIU10]

Originally Posted by rhino

Better add one to your list. You're wrong again.

Originally Posted by Soundslikejosh

The purple pachyderm has spoken!

[NateIU10]

Originally Posted by Steelman

Are you willing to pony up the cash for my legal defense?

Yes. If it is a charge of Having a Long-gun loaded in a car, and not some DTP, negligence or some other convoluted charge, I will forgo my next semester at school and pay your legal defense out of my college loan.

[Steelman]

Originally Posted by NateIU10

Just be cool for now. When I hear it from an actual lawyer (unless Rhino is a lawyer - i dont know him) , then you can celebrate.


Said lawyer will also have to be willing to open carry a loaded rifle/shotgun in a public place. If it's not illegal why isn't EVERYONE (or at least someone) carrying their shotgun/rifle in a public setting.

[rhino]

Legal advice you get on internet is worth exactly what you pay for it. I'm definitely not a lawyer (and I did not spend last night at Holiday Inn Express either), but I have spent quite a bit of time studying the laws pertaining to firearms in Indiana over the last 14 years. Plus I talk to Kirk whenever I can.

Given that, I happen to know that:

1. The Indiana Code is silent on the transport and possession of long guns, whether loaded or not. The Indiana License to Carry Handgun pertains only to handguns, not long guns.
2. If there is no law specifically making something illegal, it is not illegal (which may seem redundant). You can't be charged with breaking a law that does not exist (yet).
3. The closest thing to a law barring the carry of a loaded long gun exists in the DNR Administrative Regulations. If you are hunting (and only if you are hunting), and you are operating an offroad vehicle, then your long gun must be unloaded.