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Is it legal to transport a loaded but uncapped muzzleloader? Couple of scenarios:
1) After an unsuccessful deer hunt with a caplock muzzleloader the hunter returns to his or her vehicle. The plan is to hunt again the next day. Not wanting to have to fire and then have to clean the gun, the hunter removes the cap from the guns nipple, but leaves powder and ball in the barrel. Gun is placed in in a guncase and in the back of the vehicle (in the trunk or under the camper shell). The hunter then drives home to his or her residence in an incorporated city.
2) The hunter is going waterfowl hunting with a muzzleloading shotgun the next morning. Wanting to be ready for shooting time but not wanting to load the gun in the dark in the duckblind the next morning, the hunter puts powder, wads and shot in the guns barrels the night before, but leaves it uncapped. The gun is placed in a guncase and transported as above from the hunters residence in the city out to the duck blind.
Are any laws being broken?
Looking through the penal code and fish and game code the closest thing I could find is the fish and game section that indicates removing the cap renders the gun unloaded enough to be ok under the loaded firearm in or on a vehicle prohibition.
Thanks much for your help.
1) After an unsuccessful deer hunt with a caplock muzzleloader the hunter returns to his or her vehicle. The plan is to hunt again the next day. Not wanting to have to fire and then have to clean the gun, the hunter removes the cap from the guns nipple, but leaves powder and ball in the barrel. Gun is placed in in a guncase and in the back of the vehicle (in the trunk or under the camper shell). The hunter then drives home to his or her residence in an incorporated city.
2) The hunter is going waterfowl hunting with a muzzleloading shotgun the next morning. Wanting to be ready for shooting time but not wanting to load the gun in the dark in the duckblind the next morning, the hunter puts powder, wads and shot in the guns barrels the night before, but leaves it uncapped. The gun is placed in a guncase and transported as above from the hunters residence in the city out to the duck blind.
Are any laws being broken?
Looking through the penal code and fish and game code the closest thing I could find is the fish and game section that indicates removing the cap renders the gun unloaded enough to be ok under the loaded firearm in or on a vehicle prohibition.
Thanks much for your help.
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