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Apollo18 wrote:
Hypothetically speaking, if I should have a 1911 on my hip in my car, while on the freeway and my route takes me within 1000 feet of a school, am I in violation of the 1000 foot limitation?
Yes, but only for those brief moments in time that you actually passed in and out of the GFS zone. This could be something as short as a split secondor it could be as long as 30 seconds or more traveling at 70 mph*.
For a hypothetical scenario, say you're driving down the freeway going from one city to another.The questions are: 1.Will you get pulled overwhile in the zone? 2.Was a GFSZin the immediate vicinity you drove through? 3. Could they prove you actually were UOC'ing while in the zone? 4. Would they be able to determine whether or not you had enough time tounlock the firearm and set it out in the open and/or holster it? And probably a lot more questions along these lines.
While its true the PC states you reasonably had to know the school zone was there, in reality the judge can just omit that option from your defense argument as in Theseus' case.
So, its up to you, but if you choose to UOC while driving be careful, it could potentially be acostly decision.
*Note: the example was based on a 1000 ft GFSZ followed by a 1000 ft school property line, followed by another 1000 ft GFSZ. Traveling at 70 mph = 102.67 fps. 3000 ft / 102.67 fps = 29.22 seconds.