View Poll Results: Is it legal to have a loaded firearm inside your tent while camping on crown land?

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Thread: Is it legal???

  1. #11
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    Re: Is it legal???

    Quote Originally Posted by boxhitch View Post
    IMO A tent is not a residence, so the same rules apply as in the outdoors.
    Practice safe handling skills, muzzle control

    On that line, being drunk in a tent would be the same as drunk in a public place ? Not a safe haven ?

    Yes a TENT is your residence! It is leagel to drink in your tent, Not outside your tent.

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    Re: Is it legal???

    Quote Originally Posted by limit time View Post
    From the rcmp-grc,

    UNLOADED non-restricted firearms can be kept unlocked:
    temporarily if needed to control animal predators in an area where firearms can lawfully be fired ( amunition must be kept separate or locked up); or
    in a remote wildernesss area (ammunition may be kept readily accessible).
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    That is storage.

    If you are present it is not storage and it's under your supervision and it can be loaded and sitting in your tent.

    [QUOTE]As far as i can tell it can not be in the gun! Like Gatehouse say if you are lawfully hunting./QUOTE]

    You dont' have to be hunting to have a loaded firearm in your possession. You just ned to be somewhere that it is legal to discharge a firearm.
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    Re: Is it legal???

    Especially in known bear country, I would be sleeping with my finger Crazy Glued to the safety.
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    Re: Is it legal???

    [quote=Gatehouse;616285]That is storage.

    If you are present it is not storage and it's under your supervision and it can be loaded and sitting in your tent.

    As far as i can tell it can not be in the gun! Like Gatehouse say if you are lawfully hunting./QUOTE]

    You dont' have to be hunting to have a loaded firearm in your possession. You just ned to be somewhere that it is legal to discharge a firearm.
    Yes..but when you sleep you are not attending, so it must be unloaded?

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    Re: Is it legal???

    maybe the guys at work are thinking Park (crown land)?
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    Re: Is it legal???

    I will continue to sleep in my tent in bear country with a loaded 12ga shot gun, or 300 win mag!! Any predator who is interested in snackin on me will get an unpleasent surprise!! Moosin
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    Re: Is it legal???

    if is not legal ill take the fine
    KEEP SHOOTING OR SHOOT A BIG GUN!!!!
    IF YOU DON'T HUNT YOU AINT RIGHT IN THE HEAD!!!!!!!!!
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    Re: Is it legal???

    Quote Originally Posted by PGK View Post
    How about

    3) I don't care, I'm doing it anyway?

    I'm fairly sure its illegal when you consider regulations considering safe firearm storage. But like I say, I'd rather pay the fine than not be able to shoot my way out of the bear burrito situation...
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    Re: Is it legal???

    If you are dead, you can't pay the fine!
    I've not had a bear situation, but have had a cougar try to launch off a cutbank onto my horse and me....even with my saddle gun loaded but on safety, it took what seemed forever to get it out of the scabbard and the safety off....if I had to load it as well, triple the time. second incident, a large doberman attacked my horse, trying to grab it by the throat. I kept spinning the horse around while trying to get the same rifle out of the scabbard and reload it. I was only able to get one shell into the breach within a minute. By this time my horse had received several nasty scratches on it's neck. The owner finally called the dog off when he saw me take aim. To this day I wish I had left that gun loaded because I sure would have had the time to shoot that menace....I keep thinking if it had been a youngster riding along, what would have happened.
    Illegal or not, your personal safety comes first, in my opinion, as I first stated...If you're dead, you can't pay the fine!

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    Re: Is it legal???

    after the brambles incident, i'd probably have 3 in the mag...but i feel pretty safe in my camper!
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