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  • Cal-Irish
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2009
    • 928

    Reserve forces question

    I'm pretty sure joining the reserves gives you the right to carry a firearm. Does it also lift some of the silly CA rules? Like locked mag or 10rds?
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    CHS
    Moderator Emeritus
    CGN Contributor - Lifetime
    • Jan 2008
    • 11338

    Which reserves? Military, or police?

    If military, you aren't exempt from ANYTHING.
    Please read the Calguns Wiki
    Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
    --Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria, "On Crimes and Punishment"

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    • #3
      mk3mitch
      Senior Member
      • Jan 2008
      • 707

      If your talking police, as far as CCW, I would think yes. I know a reserve deputy who CCW's. Also, even if you are a peace officer, you must abide by the current assault weapon laws. Only way you can get an "assault weapon" legally is if the department issues you a letter head to the DOJ for said weapon. You can't just build an OLL with out a BB.

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      • #4
        Cal-Irish
        Senior Member
        • Jan 2009
        • 928

        I was looking at the coast guard. Someone I know mentioned them and I started wondering. Am I correct in saying they work both in a law enforcement and military role?

        Thanks for the answers.
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        • #5
          dustoff31
          Calguns Addict
          • Apr 2007
          • 8209

          Originally posted by Cal-Irish
          Am I correct in saying they work both in a law enforcement and military role?

          Thanks for the answers.
          Yes, you are correct. However, that authority is limited to designated personnel, on duty, in uniform, carrying gov't issued firearms.

          Simply being a member of the CG doesn't make one an LEO or provide any exemptions.
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