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Malum Prohibitum wrote:
So, you would be fine if, for instance, you unloaded it whenever you got into your car and loaded it upon exiting?
Makes you kind of vulnerable when getting in and out of your car, doesn't it?
Presumably this is what you are supposed to do in Wisconsin. You're right, it makes you vulnerable. Not to mention the attention you may draw (no pun intended) when you're handling a firearm upon exiting your car. If somebody has a fit about it, just say "Sorry, I'm forced to do this by the idiotic law."
You cannot have a loaded firearm in your car, period. It has to be unloaded AND encased. I keep a Glock in the original case it came in because the latches can be unsnapped quickly and a magazine inserted in seconds, and with one hand. You can have a loaded magazine, and the gun is consider unloaded as long as there's no loaded magazine in the gun itself (and obviously nothing in the chamber.) But one can go from "legal" to "loaded" in about 5 seconds. If you keep the slide locked back it will save even more time, but I do not do that.
Some of the the justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court have recognized that there are definite problems with the current laws regarding transporting firearms, but nothing has been done about it yet. Personally I cannot understand why anyone would think our right to bear arms is somehow muted upon entering a vehicle, but obviously there are plenty of people willing to put forward all sorts of specious argumentation to accomplish that.