03-23-2018, 12:24 PM
Like has been said it depends on your situation. Where I live in TN you can have a loaded handgun in YOUR car without having a carry permit. It has to be YOUR car. You are not allowed to exit the car with the loaded handgun unless you have a carry permit. If you have a carry permit it is legal to have a handgun loaded on your person or in your car and you can have a long gun in your car with rounds in the magazine BUT NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE ONE IN THE CHAMBER. Laws are laws even if they are stupid.
You must also take this into your thinking. Statistics show, at least in my area, most firearms that are stolen come out of automobiles. I never leave any firearm in a automobile over night and feel really bad about having to leave my handgun in my car when I go into some place that forbids the carrying of it even though I have a carry permit. I usually don't leave it in the auto unless where I am going would be a felony offence if caught carrying. I have made the decision that I would rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6 and it is only a fine for carrying in places that are posted that would not be felony offences like gov. property, schools etc.
Also take into thought. While in an automobile a handgun that you can carry on your person or close by that can be operated with ONE HAND and be brought into action in under 3 seconds is what will save your life in 99% of any self-defense situations. So the only reason that you would need a "truck or trunk gun" would be in an extended range situation of some sort and for me personally I would want a scoped rifle of some sort. Just some thoughts from an old codger that has been around the block a few times.
You must also take this into your thinking. Statistics show, at least in my area, most firearms that are stolen come out of automobiles. I never leave any firearm in a automobile over night and feel really bad about having to leave my handgun in my car when I go into some place that forbids the carrying of it even though I have a carry permit. I usually don't leave it in the auto unless where I am going would be a felony offence if caught carrying. I have made the decision that I would rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6 and it is only a fine for carrying in places that are posted that would not be felony offences like gov. property, schools etc.
Also take into thought. While in an automobile a handgun that you can carry on your person or close by that can be operated with ONE HAND and be brought into action in under 3 seconds is what will save your life in 99% of any self-defense situations. So the only reason that you would need a "truck or trunk gun" would be in an extended range situation of some sort and for me personally I would want a scoped rifle of some sort. Just some thoughts from an old codger that has been around the block a few times.