So, question on that one. Especially as it relates to carry on your own property, is it legal to carry a LOADED firearm on an off-road (or even on-road) vehicle on your own private property? The transport law looks like it wouldn't care if the vehicle is on-road or off-road. But it also seems like it would probably be okay.
I can find MD Natural Resources law
(c)(1) A person may not shoot at any species of wildlife from an automobile or other vehicle or, except as provided in § 4-203(b) of the Criminal Law Article and Title 5, Subtitle 3 of the Public Safety Article, possess in or on an automobile or other vehicle a loaded handgun or shotgun, or a rifle containing any ammunition in the magazine or chamber.
From the wear and carry law, which is § 4-203
One may not
wear, carry, or knowingly transport a handgun, whether concealed or open, in a vehicle traveling on a road or parking lot generally used by the public, highway, waterway, or airway of the State
Exception is under (b) referenced by the natural resource law
(6) the wearing, carrying, or transporting of a handgun by a person on real estate that the person owns or leases or where the person resides or within the confines of a business establishment that the person owns or leases;
Public safety law referenced is about the issuance of said permit.
So that doesn't cover a long gun at all.
I am thinking along the lines of a future property. I'd really like to buy somewhere between 20-40 acres. It would be nice, and nice to know, if it would be legal to have a loaded rifle on an ATV or tractor on the property, or if an NRP officer ever checked if I'd be in a world over trouble.
Which it sounds like the law doesn't really provide an exception for long guns, just handguns on your own property. Which, I guess nice to know if I was carrying around a pistol on my property I don't have to unload it if I step on an ATV or tractor (or even my own car or truck, so long as I wasn't leaving the property).
Or in this case because the law is referencing that section of the public safety law and expands to say where exempted by that subsection that handguns, shotguns and rifles can't be loaded on or in a vehicle, that it is applying the exception in the public safety law to all firearms?
I can find MD Natural Resources law
(c)(1) A person may not shoot at any species of wildlife from an automobile or other vehicle or, except as provided in § 4-203(b) of the Criminal Law Article and Title 5, Subtitle 3 of the Public Safety Article, possess in or on an automobile or other vehicle a loaded handgun or shotgun, or a rifle containing any ammunition in the magazine or chamber.
From the wear and carry law, which is § 4-203
One may not
wear, carry, or knowingly transport a handgun, whether concealed or open, in a vehicle traveling on a road or parking lot generally used by the public, highway, waterway, or airway of the State
Exception is under (b) referenced by the natural resource law
(6) the wearing, carrying, or transporting of a handgun by a person on real estate that the person owns or leases or where the person resides or within the confines of a business establishment that the person owns or leases;
Public safety law referenced is about the issuance of said permit.
So that doesn't cover a long gun at all.
I am thinking along the lines of a future property. I'd really like to buy somewhere between 20-40 acres. It would be nice, and nice to know, if it would be legal to have a loaded rifle on an ATV or tractor on the property, or if an NRP officer ever checked if I'd be in a world over trouble.
Which it sounds like the law doesn't really provide an exception for long guns, just handguns on your own property. Which, I guess nice to know if I was carrying around a pistol on my property I don't have to unload it if I step on an ATV or tractor (or even my own car or truck, so long as I wasn't leaving the property).
Or in this case because the law is referencing that section of the public safety law and expands to say where exempted by that subsection that handguns, shotguns and rifles can't be loaded on or in a vehicle, that it is applying the exception in the public safety law to all firearms?