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I've always been under the impression that emergencies override firearms laws. If you are staggering into the ER bleeding to death, their obligation to treat you has priority over you remembering to leave your gun in the car. Likewise, as toplaces such as schools, bars, and private property with no-weapons policies, if someone on one of those properites is being threatened or attacked with deadly force, I am sure you can intervene as a citizen. I have seen references in the statutes about "acting in place of a peace officer in his absence." I take that to mean that if someone is shooting up a high school and you just happen to have a gun in your car, you can take your gun into the school and stop the shooting and detain (permenately if necessary) the criminal until the police arrive and you wouldn't be charged. Or say someone in a bar is holding a knife to another patron's neck, if bringing a gun inside the bar and shooting the knife-wielding drunk is necessary to save an innocent life, then this would override the gun prohibition. Again, you are acting "in place of a peace officer in his absense" so technically you are the police officer until the real police arrive. Legal experts do not advise citizens to do such interventions but as far as I'm aware, they are allowed.
