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I recently rode the bus in Missoula for the first time and noticed a list of rules posted in the terminal lobby. The same is also stated on their website.
http://www.mountainline.com/index.php/ride/safety/
Additionally, the following items are prohibited on Mountain Line:
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There is a preemption law in Montana (45-8-351, M.C.A.) that prevents local governments from passing gun control ordinances. Mountain Line is a public transit agency created by the voters in 1976.
Doesn't this policyconflict with Montana's firearm preemption law ?
45-8-351. Restriction on local government regulation of firearms. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), no county, city, town, consolidated local government, or other local government unit may prohibit, register, tax, license, or regulate the purchase, sale or other transfer (including delay in purchase, sale, or other transfer), ownership, possession, transportation, use, or unconcealed carrying of any weapon, including a rifle, shotgun, handgun, or concealed handgun.
(2) (a) For public safety purposes, a city or town may regulate the discharge of rifles, shotguns, and handguns. A county, city, town, consolidated local government, or other local government unit has power to prevent and suppress the carrying of concealed or unconcealed weapons to a public assembly, publicly owned building, park under its jurisdiction, or school, and the possession of firearms by convicted felons, adjudicated mental incompetents, illegal aliens, and minors.
(b) Nothing contained herein shall allow any government to prohibit the legitimate display of firearms at shows or other public occasions by collectors and others, nor shall anything contained herein prohibit the legitimate transportation of firearms through any jurisdiction, whether in airports or otherwise.
I recently rode the bus in Missoula for the first time and noticed a list of rules posted in the terminal lobby. The same is also stated on their website.
http://www.mountainline.com/index.php/ride/safety/
Additionally, the following items are prohibited on Mountain Line:
- Gasoline and other flammable liquids
- Firearms, BB guns, airguns, and knives
- Animals (except service animals and animals confined to a carry-on, lap size box)
- Car batteries
- Fireworks
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There is a preemption law in Montana (45-8-351, M.C.A.) that prevents local governments from passing gun control ordinances. Mountain Line is a public transit agency created by the voters in 1976.
Doesn't this policyconflict with Montana's firearm preemption law ?
45-8-351. Restriction on local government regulation of firearms. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), no county, city, town, consolidated local government, or other local government unit may prohibit, register, tax, license, or regulate the purchase, sale or other transfer (including delay in purchase, sale, or other transfer), ownership, possession, transportation, use, or unconcealed carrying of any weapon, including a rifle, shotgun, handgun, or concealed handgun.
(2) (a) For public safety purposes, a city or town may regulate the discharge of rifles, shotguns, and handguns. A county, city, town, consolidated local government, or other local government unit has power to prevent and suppress the carrying of concealed or unconcealed weapons to a public assembly, publicly owned building, park under its jurisdiction, or school, and the possession of firearms by convicted felons, adjudicated mental incompetents, illegal aliens, and minors.
(b) Nothing contained herein shall allow any government to prohibit the legitimate display of firearms at shows or other public occasions by collectors and others, nor shall anything contained herein prohibit the legitimate transportation of firearms through any jurisdiction, whether in airports or otherwise.