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Originally Posted by John Dallas
My point was that leaning a gun against the outside of the vehicle is defined as "in"
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Are you kidding? How in the world can a gun outside a vehicle be in it? Some of the rulings on laws, that I hear about, are stupid to the extreme.
If that's really true it reminds me of a court case here years ago in which a dove shooting buddy of mine, and country lawyer, defended an entire field full of shooters who were charged with shooting over bait. The field in question was a large field which had been planted in it's entirety in alternating strips of corn and sunflowers, which ran the full length of the field. When preparing the field the owner had bush-hogged lanes through some of the strips of both corn and sunflowers. As a rotary mower will do, it slung some of the corn into the rows of standing sunflowers and some of the sunflowers into the rows of standing corn. This is, of course, legal in every way.
When the federal game warden presented his case he said that each four-row wide strip of corn and sunflowers constituted a separate "field", and that because there was sunflowers in the corn "fields" and corn in the sunflower "fields" they were baited.
My friend looked at the judge and said he rested his case, at which point the judge berated the warden for wasting the court's time and threw the case out, or at the very least found all the defendants not guilty.