School Grounds

[vuster]

Hi Everyone.

With a CCW permit, is it still legal to have an unloaded firearm in a locked container in your vehicle on school grounds? And, does school grounds include adjacent street?

Thanks in advance.

[Pistol_Ned]

On school grounds in California having a CCW permit is meaningless. You get no special "privileges" possessing your CCW card for lack of a better word. It's simply not valid. I am not sure what you mean by adjacent street but in my area streets adjacent to schools have houses, parks and businesses on them. Those wouldn't constitute school grounds in my case. My understanding is that a firearm unloaded and in a locked container inside a vehicle is still fine on and adjacent to school grounds no matter if you have a CCW or not.

[SigSauerP226]

…My understanding is that a firearm unloaded and in a locked container inside a vehicle is still fine on and adjacent to school grounds no matter if you have a CCW or not.

Yep that’s my understanding, as well. I will note that PC 26230 seems to lack the “unloaded” portion, as someone with a CCW will have ammo with the firearm. From my reading, as long as the gun is locked up, you're good to go. Oddly enough in that section I don’t see anything requiring the ammo be locked up. Of course that section is for folks with CCW and not just anyone with a gun.
PC 26230(b):
“Notwithstanding subdivision (a), except under paragraph (21) or (28) of subdivision (a), a licensee may transport a firearm and ammunition within their vehicle so long as the firearm is locked in a lock box, as defined in subdivision (y) of Section 4082 and subdivision (b) of Section 4094 of Title 11 of the California Code of Regulations, and the lock box is a firearm safety device, as defined in Section 16540, that is listed on the department’s Roster of Firearm Safety Devices Certified for Sale pursuant to Sections 23650 and 23655. Nothing in this subdivision is intended to preempt local laws placing more restrictive requirements upon the storage of firearms in vehicles.”

OP Refer to PC 626.9 (general info about guns and schools) and PC 26230 (Folks with CCW and their limits in regards to schools, probably more applicable to your question).