Thread: Vehicle transport catch-22

@veitnamcam

No need to charge him, he's a nut.

Think @Jexla, from context, was thinking about that old chestnut of an unattended vehicle with weapons in it.

Also if pistol shooting out of town, you leave your pistols with the club your shooting ats Armourer.

Interesting to see the different comments and ways it works across the country. I appreciate the thread staying on track - it's good to get a wide range of inputs. It's always hard to tell how close to the truth individual sources are sometimes

Looks like I'll be folding up a steel box and installing hard points in the vehicle, then get input from the local constabulary. At worst I end up with a secure place to keep my tools!

Originally Posted by canross

Interesting to see the different comments and ways it works across the country. I appreciate the thread staying on track - it's good to get a wide range of inputs. It's always hard to tell how close to the truth individual sources are sometimes

Looks like I'll be folding up a steel box and installing hard points in the vehicle, then get input from the local constabulary. At worst I end up with a secure place to keep my tools!

@canross

I expect you won't get it approved by the AO, as AO has no legal discretion where the law is clear.

Only exception I've heard of (on this forum I think) was where the "vehicle" was in fact a house truck in which the FAL holder lived, but there are also cases of an AO declining to approve storage in such a vehicle. Such is the nature of discretion.

Originally Posted by Cordite

@canross

I expect you won't get it approved by the AO, as AO has no legal discretion where the law is clear.

Only exception I've heard of (on this forum I think) was where the "vehicle" was in fact a house truck in which the FAL holder lived, but there are also cases of an AO declining to approve storage in such a vehicle. Such is the nature of discretion.

Unfortunately I think you're right, at least in that it would be a darn struggle. As others have said, it's pretty ridiculous that there's no possible way to leave a firearm in a vehicle... it's done all the time in Canada and there are no mass thefts or problems... just means you don't have to live in close orbit of your car or carry a gun around and risk getting shot by the police or charged with causing a public disturbance (which does happen when people legally carry their cased firearms from the car to house).

Originally Posted by Cordite

@canross

I expect you won't get it approved by the AO, as AO has no legal discretion where the law is clear.

Only exception I've heard of (on this forum I think) was where the "vehicle" was in fact a house truck in which the FAL holder lived, but there are also cases of an AO declining to approve storage in such a vehicle. Such is the nature of discretion.

A "house bus" is still a vehicle, and in the case of the one mentioned by myself, is still very much road worthy and road legal.. Crazy !