Pick-up trucks gun racks legislation

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CorsicanRedneck

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Howdy y'all,
I was wondering if anyone knows if it is legal in California to have a gun rack on the rear window of your pick-up?
I tried to look that up on google but couldn't find the information I need.

thanks y'all.
 
I honestly don't know in CA, where I live it is legal but advertizing in the cities for a break in. Used to have a rifle and shotgun on rack in pickup but the schools went beserk about that so I no longer carry shotguns and rifles in the truck. What else I carry is nobody's business .
 
I don't know if it is legal today but I used to put my CAR-15 in the rack of my old Dodge 4 X 4. Got some real strange looks but nobody questioned my driving.


Being as you live in California, isn't EVERYTHING illegal. This is probably too. :p
 
I still can email the sheriff dept. They've answered a few of my questions in the past concerning CCW process in CA.

Yeah, this is one of the reason I want to get the hell out of CA!
Though, I live in a remote place and communte 100 miles round-trip a day to work. Basically, I was planning to buy one of those rear-window gun rack that you can remove whenever you want and use it when I go shoot in the canyons or when I go hunting. I just don't want to get pulled over every 10 miles. :rolleyes:
 
In The Peeples Republik of Kalifornia it is illegal to transport any weapon unless it is in a locked container separated from the passenger compartment of the vehicle. All ammo for the weapon must also be in a locked container separate from the passenger compartment.

In pickups it has been OK to have the weapons and ammo in SEPARATE locked containers behind the seatback in the past. I believe that this is still acceptable practice. If you have a bedcover or shell on the truck, put the guns in the back.

Window racks WILL get you arrested if they have ANYTHING in them including BB guns and paintball guns.
 
If they don't have a law, they soon will. Happened in Oregon and Oregon/California play off each other :barf: :

http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash...ews-12/1127201641243421.xml&storylist=orlocal

Gun discharges in traffic accident, killing driver
9/20/2005, 12:29 a.m. PT
The Associated Press


PRINEVILLE, Ore. (AP) — A minor traffic accident proved fatal when a motorist's rifle fell from a gun rack and discharged, the authorities said.

Timothy Dhaenens, 18, of Prineville was shot once in the head after his pickup collided with another vehicle while trying to make a left turn.

"It was just a freak thing," said Sgt. Russ Wright of the Crook County Sheriff's Office. "This would have been a no-injury accident if it hadn't been for the gun coming out of the rack."

Wright said Dhaenens was attempting to make a left turn into a private drive Sunday afternoon. He turned the truck into the oncoming lane and struck a vehicle driven David Fillmore, 43, of Bend.

Dhaenens died at the scene when the .22 caliber rifle in his pickup fired. Fillmore was not injured.

Wright said a weapons expert will test the rifle in an attempt to determine what happened.

Wright said the momentum of the turn could have thrown the rifle against the passenger side window, hitting the butt of the firearm and causing it to discharge a round.

Alternatively, the trigger may have caught on one of the hooks on the gun rack as it fell, Wright said.

"When you carry a firearm in a vehicle, the most important things are to be sure it is unloaded and two, that it is secured properly," Wright said. "In this case, the gun wasn't secured, it was loaded and the safety was off."

It is not illegal to carry a loaded firearm in Oregon, but it cannot be concealed without a permit.

According to court records obtained by The Bulletin newspaper of Bend, Dhaenens was cited in February for failing to obey a traffic signal and again in March after an accident involving property damage.

He pleaded guilty in April to failing to perform the duties of a driver. The charge of failing to obey a traffic signal was dismissed.
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There is already "talk" in town about outlawing gun racks. The anti's really don't like people with guns in their trucks you know :barf: .

Wayne
 
Put in the gun rack. It's a good place to put your cane or something like that.

Sincerely,

Bogie, currently limping with a sprained ankle.
 
In The Peeples Republik of Kalifornia it is illegal to transport any weapon unless it is in a locked container separated from the passenger compartment of the vehicle. All ammo for the weapon must also be in a locked container separate from the passenger compartment.
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Not true. That only applies to handguns or so called "assault weapons". The locked container can be in the passenger compartment and there is no requirement to transport ammunition in a locked container.
 
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