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keep mine loaded too and I’m no fool,” agreed Charles Foster. “What you’re saying ain’t making a whole lot of sense no ways,” Welch added to Kilpatrick. Ignoring the interruption, Kilpatrick pointed out that National Rifle Association hunter safety courses—a prerequisite for a hunting license in some states—emphasize that a loaded rifle should never be carried in an automobile. “It’s an accident looking for a place to happen,” maintained Kilpatrick. “A good hunter doesn’t load his firearm until he’s ready to shoot it,” he concluded. Charles Foster noted again that support for the ordinances came from “newcomers” to Rappahannock. "If the majority of road hunters are from out of county, why restrict the natives?” he asked. "We’re the people who have to live under these ordinances.”
Commonwealth’s Attorney George Davis blamed most of the hunting problems on the two-week difference in deer season between the east side and the west side of the mountains. “Ninety per cent of our problem arises in those two weeks,” he maintained.
Davis added that he saw a problem with the ordinances in regard to the definition of a loaded gun. “Is a firearm considered loaded when it has ammunition in the breech or ammunition in the magazine?” he asked.
Charles Foster reported that the Game Warden defined loaded as having
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