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JOESEEB wrote:
Sorry for ranting on and on and on and on but I had to get it off my chest to make room for more mags. I have only one question and that is. Is it legal for me to carry my M4 out to check on my van and then around my apartment? I live here it is my place of dwelling and as long as I’m not just walking around the whole complex it should be ok as long as I’m just checking my stuff right?...... I’m guessing the answer is no that is why I haven’t done it yet but I would like to know because I’m way more comfortable with it then my .45 acp. Plus it has all the toys on it.
Legal? Yes, technically. Also likely to get you into trouble. I forget if it's Spencer or Cassad but one of those court cases involved a guy who was convicted of unlawful display under 9.41.270 for walking down the street, in a bad neighborhood, with an AK-47 on his shoulder. You'd have a hard time arguing about "warrants alarm" with a gun in-hand. You could also be announcing to the punks casing the joint that there's big valuable guns to be found at your house, might not be wise. I'd say drop some cash on a couple hundred rounds for your 45 and
get comfortable with it, that you can walk around with in a holster and not get troubled. And keep the 7.62 (an M4 that takes 7.62?:uhoh
ready to go by your bedside.
My two cents on the "property is not worth a life" thing: bullshit.
I am not contesting the laws as currently written, I'm familiar with the legal justifications for the use of deadly force in this state. I am not advocating vigilantism or violating any law. But my property is
my property. I should be able to defend it in any manner I see fit. Spare me the "it can always be replaced," that's bull. The time and effort I took into earning that property cannot be replaced. The time & effort I spent making it mine cannot be replaced. The sense of violation I feel after it's tampered with can never be un-learned. Theft is not a crime of passion, or desperation. Not in this day & age. If I find someone trying to steal even the crap from my septic tank I have every moral & ethical (not legal) right to drop them where they stand. They
chose to come onto my property. They
chose to violate my possessions. With malice of forethought and conscious decision, knowing right & wrong full well, they chose to violate my property. At any point up until then they could have chosen more wisely and left, but once the choice is made, so are the consequences.
Now, if I look out the window & find someone
actually stealing the crap from my septic tank, am I going to shoot them? Of course not, I have no legal right to do that under the current system of laws, and I too am aware of what consequences that bad choice would bring. But they would be staring down a 12 guage barrel at a load of buckshot while we wait for the sheriff to show up. If they are on my property without my permission, I have reason to believe they intend to do me & my family harm.
Now, popping the bugger once in the leg for tearing up the garden that's above the septic tank in order to rob it, that's another matter entirely. :lol: