timjet
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Can anyone enlighten me on the N.C. laws concerning the carrying of a loaded rifle on your boat. Please this is not a discussion on the wisdom of carrying a gun.
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N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission > Licensing > Regulations > Fire Arms and Concealed Carry
*** POSSESSION OF FIREARMS ON BOATING AND FISHING ACCESS AREAS
No person shall possesses a loaded firearm on any public fishing or boating access area, with the exception of those who carry a concealed handgun with a valid concealed handgun permit, unless otherwise prohibited by the landowner and posted as such. This ruling also applies to wildlife conservation areas.
*** N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission > Licensing > Regulations > Fire Arms and Concealed Carry
GOOGLE and 6 min of time, not hard, but easier to get others to do it I guess.
That's at boat ramps (what the NCWRC calls boating access area) and fishing piers. You can have a rifle on board your boat, but you better immediately tell the Coast Guard and any other LEO about to board your boat that you have it, that it is loaded and exactly where it is. The CH has been known to unload guns and put the ammo somewhere away from the gun while they are on board.
...GOOGLE and 6 min of time, not hard, but easier to get others to do it I guess.
Just so I understand, they could not/would not interpret it to also mean docks (public) and marinas as "access areas"? I have a CCW permit that is honored in NC so I would hope that that would prevent me from trouble.
I have a problem with the wording "public access areas" only meaning boat ramps I also want to know if and how all "wildlife conservation areas" are marked.
I don't want to be a test case.
Then do as kthonnes suggests and pick up the phone. Or trust us locals.
Things can get pretty testy at the boat ramps and fishing piers. NC officially designates boating access areas with signage; they build and run almost all of them.
I have been a boat with a gun or two on board (not ours) and witnessed first hand the CG doing their gun thing, in one case, separating the ammo, which I had previously heard anecdotally of them doing . As Ski says, just telling them what you have and where takes all the pressure off. It's no big deal there at all.
I was boarded by the USCG not long ago and they didn't ask about weapons on board until the end. I would have thought that would have been the first question asked.
I volunteer that information right up front! "Sir I have loaded weapons aboard and they are located......."
Or why wouldn't you just make a couple phone calls to the nearest CG office, or Fish & Game office, or whatever they call the state boat cops there. After all, what you think the law says (and sometime what it actually says) might differ from the way law enforcement reads and enforces it.
OK, thanks guys I feel better now. Incidentally I did google for this info but as others have said I was confused about what N.C. LEO's consider boating access areas.