Legal restrictions on carrying ammunition?

[VeeTee]

Gentlemen,

When necessary to lock a weapon in a vehicle before entering places where these are prohibited by state and federal statute, are any of you aware of any statute that also prohibits carrying loaded clips or speed loaders?

My theory is that if I'm gonna leave a weapon, even if it's under lock and key, it is still more secure to take the clip(s) with me.

Has anybody looked into this? Or does anybody even have a concern about it?

V

[KingofChaos]

I don't think there's just one over-arching law on these sorts of things. So you'd most likely have to decide what you're going to do for yourself. Not looking at the penal code, but from memory I don't remember ammunition ever being mentioned in 30.05 or 30.06. I am fairly certain that airport security(feds) get very nasty if you try to carry ammunition past where you can't carry a weapon. Which I've actually done, but they didn't catch it. Also, you don't have to lock your weapon away. Whether you should or not is another discussion. I just keep mine in the middle console. I figure as long as no one sees me, my odds of a break in are pretty low.

[C-dub]

No state law that I can think of, but I'm not really the most legalese person on the forum. There is bound to be a federal prohibiting the carry of ammunition on federal property.

However, we've heard from more than one member here that when trying to enter a building where guns were prohibited with an empty holster the security people still had a minor stroke and would not let them proceed without returning the empty holster to their vehicle. So, I'm just guessing that they would also have the same kind of fit with ammunition in a magazine or speed loader or what have you.

[VeeTee]

Quote:
"So, I'm just guessing that they would also have the same kind of fit with ammunition in a magazine or speed loader or what have you."

That's the trouble with security people... no sense of humor.

V

[JeepGuy79]

When necessary to lock a weapon in a vehicle before entering places where these are prohibited by state and federal statute, are any of you aware of any statute that also prohibits carrying loaded clips or speed loaders?

My theory is that if I'm gonna leave a weapon, even if it's under lock and key, it is still more secure to take the clip(s) with me.

Has anybody looked into this? Or does anybody even have a concern about it?

V

You carry a M1 garand around with you full time?

[OldCannon]

When necessary to lock a weapon in a vehicle before entering places where these are prohibited by state and federal statute, are any of you aware of any statute that also prohibits carrying loaded clips or speed loaders?

Somewhere, a box of 13 puppies was set on fire and thrown off a building.

[Heartland Patriot]

When necessary to lock a weapon in a vehicle before entering places where these are prohibited by state and federal statute, are any of you aware of any statute that also prohibits carrying loaded clips or speed loaders?

My theory is that if I'm gonna leave a weapon, even if it's under lock and key, it is still more secure to take the clip(s) with me.

Has anybody looked into this? Or does anybody even have a concern about it?

V

You carry a M1 garand around with you full time?

When necessary to lock a weapon in a vehicle before entering places where these are prohibited by state and federal statute, are any of you aware of any statute that also prohibits carrying loaded clips or speed loaders?

Somewhere, a box of 13 puppies was set on fire and thrown off a building.

I was waiting for it...and I wasn't disappointed...

[Scott in Houston]

When necessary to lock a weapon in a vehicle before entering places where these are prohibited by state and federal statute, are any of you aware of any statute that also prohibits carrying loaded clips or speed loaders?

Somewhere, a box of 13 puppies was set on fire and thrown off a building.

5 posts. That's a new record. It's usually called out within 1 or 2!

[57Coastie]

After locking my handgun up in my car, I once had to revisit my car and lock up my spare magazine in order to enter a courthouse after being told "explosives are not permitted."

So far as courthouses are concerned the overriding rule is the one promulgated by the resident judge(s).

Those who come back to me citing the 2d Amendment and "natural rights" will be wasting cyberspace. I invite them to visit this judge and,

1. Explain to him or her that neither he nor she nor the state legislature can override the 2d Amendment, and/or

2. Explain to him or her that handgun ammunition is not an "explosive."

Jim

[RoyGBiv]

Clips.................................................................... Magazines


Only very rarely is "clip" a good reference to the part of a weapon system that holds ammunition.....
But that weapon is not CHL friendly


Sorry.. Pet peeve.

[Scott in Houston]

I know we're in full hijack mode now, but does the use of "gun" when referring to a rifle bother you too?
It drives me crazy, but only because my dad drilled that into my head as a kid. Ironically, I didn't grow up with a rifle or gun in the house! He was just former military and that was drilled into his head too.

[speedsix]

...semantics aside, we all understood exactly what the OP, a new member, meant...


...to answer the question, I routinely drop just the pistol in the car and leave the holster/clips in place...unless it's a Federal facility...they seem to grind finer than the locals...

[RPB]

I'd guess that most cartridges which have a primer and gunpowder and bullet in them, contain explosives.
In places where explosives are forbidden by some law or another, I would guess that includes ammo which contains explosives.
So, I wouldn't carry ammo in secure areas of airport.
I hadn't thought about not carrying ammo, or my knife, into the high school auditorium/college building, though the gun is in the car in the parking lot where they force me to store it for easier access to car burglars who would otherwise have to reach inside my pants to get my gun.

[speedsix]

...makes good sense...and that's prolly where the Feds would bite me...

[57Coastie]

...to answer the question, I routinely drop just the pistol in the car and leave the holster/clips in place...unless it's a Federal facility...they seem to grind finer than the locals...

I recommend that you not go into the Brazos County courthouse like that.

Jim