Thread: Safe transportation - legal requirements?

Originally Posted by GravelBen

Basically cannot be 'unsupervised', which is not actually defined anywhere so open to interpretation. If you can sit by the window and park where you can see the car I'd say its clearly supervised, if the car is alarmed and you can hear it... maybe? Its a grey area AFAIK.

Personally if I'm going to be away from the car for more than just paying for petrol etc I generally have the bolt separate and slip it into my pocket anyway, even when the car is locked/alarmed. Doesn't take much effort and its another layer of security. Obviously not such an easy option for firearms without easily removable bolts though.

I would just take the bolt with me, cover the gun, close windows (unless you have a rottweiler on the back seat), at least you have taken some reasonable steps, that is not what cops would interpret as an unattended car, so Mike from the police firearms group says. Other reason I don't think they'd press charges if you do the above, read up on Richard Lincoln and what happened to him when he stuck to the law as it is written when he needed to take a leak. And no, don't want to start that debate up again.