Public attitude has really changed in regards to firearms over the past 40 years. Back then, you thought nothing about a gun next to the back door for varmints. You' d buy a gun at the local department store and walk home with it. Now there' s a paranoia about letting anyone in public see that you have a firearm. It' s easy, with that type of prejudice to believe that a firearm must be cased.

I wouldn' t have known either if the instructor at my last FAC hadn' t given the example of a person being charged for having a rifle unlocked, unloaded and uncased in the trunk of his car when police checked him during a RIDE check. He had to use his FAC manual to prove he wasn' t improperly transporting firearms.

Dan O.