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POINTS OF OPPOSITION TO PROPOSAL TO PROHIBIT LOADED GUNS IN VEHICLES
This law, if enacted, would be difficult, if not impossible to enforce. Game wardens in other counties have admitted to this. Thus, we have those whose duty it will be to enforce this law, stating that they will not be able to effectively* do so. Those, who intend to violate, will do so knowing that there is little probability that they will be caught. The law could only prove to be a harassment and an inconvenience to the law abiding sportsman.
It is now legal to carry a loaded gun on Virginia’s highways, so long as it is not concealed on the person. How, then, can it legally be legislated that carrying a loaded gun in a vehicle on the same highway be unlawful?
If the law were enacted, to circumvent it, all one need do is to stop one’s vehicle and step out onto the road with the loaded gun, thus, being within the law. This readily shows the impossibility of enforcement.
It takes but a matter of very few seconds to snap a magazine or cartridge into a gun, and no longer to remove the same. For this reason alone it is felt that this law will not do what is intended of it, and that is to curtail unlawful shooting from vehicles. The violator will not be handicapped to any effective extent.
Virginia law already prohibits shooting within 100 yards of a highway, as well as prohibiting shooting from a vehicle. With these two laws in effect, and apparently being violated, as the request for this unloaded gun law would indicate, it isn’t feasible to believe that another law, unenforceable, would deter the violator.
As for safety, it is well known that it is often the “empty” gun that kills. A gun known to be loaded is usually handled with more care than one thought to be empty. From a safety standpoint it is believed that this law would aid little or nothing.
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