Guns on a Boat

[jdsteele]

I'm a MD Designated Collector. Of course, that means that I can transport a gun to a "private exhibition".

If I want to exhibit my pistol to my son-in-law out in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay (and use my 9mm Beretta pistol for fishing ),
is it OK to transport my gun via my boat?

 

[BlackBart]

I'm a MD Designated Collector. Of course, that means that I can transport a gun to a "private exhibition".

If I want to exhibit my pistol to my son-in-law out in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay (and use my 9mm Beretta pistol for fishing), is it OK to transport my gun via my boat?

That ain't gonna happen..... legally.

 

[240 towles]

transportation is allowed by boat [same as a car, ammo and gun separated].
http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f129/reply-from-dnr-re-guns-on-boats-in-md-60428.html

shooting in the bay is probably illegal [don't get caught with casings on board or within sight of another vessel or shoreline.]

 

[Gryphon]

Not if it is loaded at anytime during the trip. The definition of "vehicle" under the PS article includes "boats" traveling on Maryland waterways, so however you can transport in a car on a highway in Maryland with a DC you can transport on a boat, and vice versa. You'd think if the boat was large enough, with a mortgage deduction, and perhaps being legitimately claimed as a second home, that you could keep a loaded firearm on board for self-defense "within the home," but that isn't likely to hold up as soon as you leave your slip. So when you load the firearm without a C&W permit, and even before you break the law by shooting at a fish, you have violated Maryland law and FOPA and are subject to a trip to Central Booking. I realize these questions are a sarcastic and fun way to poke fun at ridiculous laws, I'm just not sure how constructive they are when they can be twisted and used by libtards as examples irresponsible gun owners.

 

[rico903]

For a mortgage deduction doesn't a boat need a galley and a head? If so I would think it would be your temporary home. Too logical I guess.

 

[Gryphon]

For a mortgage deduction doesn't a boat need a galley and a head? If so I would think it would be your temporary home. Too logical I guess.

Yes. But as soon as it moves on the water it is a vehicle just like a car or even a motor home on the highway - generally have to keep weapons unloaded, in separate compartments in holsters, or locked cases, i.e. unloaded and not readily accessible. Shooting at fish? That's another story altogether

 

[Pinecone]

Boat that is deducted as a second home, should be the same as a motor home.

When stopped, it is a second home. When moving, treat them them same.

IANAL.

 

[iH8DemLibz]

For a mortgage deduction doesn't a boat need a galley and a head? If so I would think it would be your temporary home. Too logical I guess.

Would a Coleman Stove and empty Mountain Dew bottle suffice?

 

[Scratch]

(and use my 9mm Beretta pistol for fishing)

"How 'Moby Dick' should have ended"...

 

[webb297]

OK, how exactly were you planning on using your 9mm beretta for fishing?

 

[240 towles]

shark repellant

 

[hairba111]

Guns on a Boat?

If you have a set of these, nobody will mess with you.

 

[fabsroman]

For a mortgage deduction doesn't a boat need a galley and a head? If so I would think it would be your temporary home. Too logical I guess.

Let's keep in mind that while the IRS code considers it a "home" for the deduction of mortgage interest, that does NOT mean that the Md. Code views it as a home for handgun carry purposes. I would be extremely careful in trying to stretch the home mortgage interest deduction definition of home to the castle doctrine, etc.

Obviously, firearms can be transported in a boat, just like a car. Otherwise, waterfowling would be limited to fields pretty much.

It is illegal to shoot at fish with a handgun.

It is illegal to shoot from a boat, just as it is illegal to shoot from a car. Don't know if there is an exception for shooting from a moored boat used as a duck blind, but I have never done it and as a result never looked up the law.

End of the day, shooting at fish with a 9mm handgun from a boat is just a bad idea all the way around.

 

[zoostation]

I see your logic, and award you ten inernets for ingenuity.

However, I wouldn't want to have to try to defend that logic to a DNR officer, or a judge.

 

[enjoi1968]

What's it, 3 miles off shore is the international water line? Or is it 6 miles. I can't remember. But I cam remember after that line is crossed all law is subjective to the Captain of the vessel.

That's how NAMBLA rolls, iirc.

 

[SRD]

Would a Coleman Stove and empty Mountain Dew bottle suffice?

 

[ews25]

This doesn't answer the question posed, but thought some of you might find it interesting nonetheless.
http://www.npr.org/2013/01/15/169452244/supreme-court-rules-that-houseboats-are-houses-not-boats

 

[240 towles]

It is illegal to shoot from a boat, just as it is illegal to shoot from a car.

not on private property, while being safe with a good backstop and while avoiding disturbing the public.

 

[BlackBart]

Guns on a Boat?

If you have a set of these, nobody will mess with you.

That ain't no gun, THIS is a gun!

 

[adit]

What's it, 3 miles off shore is the international water line? Or is it 6 miles. I can't remember. But I cam remember after that line is crossed all law is subjective to the Captain of the vessel.

That's how NAMBLA rolls, iirc.

12 miles, but as I understand it, you can shoot anything once you are 3 miles out.