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Handguns may be in a vehicle even with the chamber loaded. You can have it loaded and walk around on the streets in Nevada as long as it is in plain sight.
In your vehicle a gun can be concealed anywhere except on your person, but on foot it must be discernible. If it is concealed on your person or in a container carried by you it is a class C felony.
"Concealed weapon” means a weapon described in this section that is carried upon a person in such a manner as not to be discernible by ordinary observation.
Your long guns do not need to be in a case. Your rifles must not have a chambered round, but they may have a loaded mag.
You can open carry in Clark County. The state legislature made a law that was supposed to make local laws invalid. Right now we have this problem where our attorney general says that the law doesn't mean anything and localities can ban firearms. Check local ordinances, especially city ordinances.
I know that North Las Vegas prohibits firearms in vehicles, so if you consider the misinterpretation of the Nevada AG to carry any weight, the only way you could have a firearm in your vehicle in NLV is as permitted by the federal law. See:
Title 18 U.S.C. 926 [url]
That is, if you consider the Attorney General's opinion to count.
Also, there is no law in Nevada prohibiting guns in school zones, unlike California (although you may not "loiter" 'near' a school with weapons per NRS 393.410. Near is not defined)
Federal law in Title 18 U.S.C. Section 922, (Q), however states that
"It shall be unlawful for any individual knowingly to possess a firearm that has moved in or that otherwise affects interstate or foreign commerce at a place that the individual knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, is a school zone. "
and similar to the CA law, a school zone under federal law is 1000 feet from the school.
In 1996, in United States vs. Lopez, the original act was considered an unconstitutional extension of the commerce clause and thus was voided. It didn't contain the "that has moved in or that otherwise affects interstate or foreign commerce" part but otherwise was identical to the current law. In my opinion that doesn't make it any more constitutional under the commerce clause and although they declare that
all guns have moved through commerce, I think it would be a stretch to say that it affects commerce at all. As far as I know, nobody has been prosecuted under the federal law since the Lopez case, but if convicted it would be a harsh felony penalty.
If you aren't knowingly possessing a gun that has moved in commerce or affects it, and don't have reasonable cause to know that you are in a school zone then I guess you could be okay too.