Technically, yes, on both counts.Aggie_engr wrote:1.) So a long gun in your vehicle has to be unloaded and locked up while in a school zone?
2.) If you are just passing through on a public street that is next to a school is that considered a school zone?
This is Federal law, however, not state law. Don't expect local LEO's to generally know or enforce this.
From a thread that researched this before, this has been more of an 'add-on' charge. Basically, you screwed up, got arrested for something else, and, oh yea, we can add this to the charges too.