Walk It Through: The Shotgun in the Truck
Duck season, a loaded shotgun on a back road, a stop, and the rule for long guns along a highway.
Before dawn, a hunter drives to a marsh with a shotgun on the seat, shells still in the magazine from yesterday.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
A licensed hunter with a shotgun. Handguns, a carry license, hunting rules themselves and boats on the water are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Loaded rifle or shotgun on a roadA rifle or shotgun that is loaded, or has shells still in its magazine, upon or along a public highway, road, lane or trail. Having one there is punished by up to five years or $5,000.
- School groundsThe property of a public or private elementary or secondary school, a building or stadium in use for a school activity, and school transportation.