Thread: Safe transportation - legal requirements?

Originally Posted by yosamitesam

Surely this must mean a magazine attached to a weapon and therefore constituting a loaded weapon - ready to fire? A loaded magazine locked in an ammo can is likely safer than ammo in a card box in an ammo tin?

If a detachable magazine is removed from the gun, the gun is not loaded (unless there's one in the chamber).

It would be hard to show how a loaded magazine by itself could 'endanger the life of any person' while locked locked in a box.

A loaded gun left behind the kitchen door where kids could play with it, certainly would be careless.