The letter of the law isn' t the same as the spirit of the law and thats where we make our mistakes, or get the blame. For me to put my gun out of view (encased) i use a gun sock and without using much imagination you know theres a gun in there. Any gun case can be sitting on the back seat of your car in plain view and its ok because the gun isn' t in view, but am sure the spirit of the law was meant for the gun to be in the trunk. It scares me to no end that our law makers have no details about the item it is they are making laws for. Guy who taught our PAL course was telling us of a guy who was out shooting/hunting and the gun jammed with a shell inside the chamber. He couldn' t get the shell out no way no how so took every precaution he could including putting a trigger lock on, encased the gun and locked it in his trunk. He heading out to the gunsmiths without stopping off anywhere else until he got pulled over by the police. He told the officer that he had a gun in the trunk and gave all the details about how it was broke with a shell in it and where he was heading. The officer charged him with careless storage of a firearm. It went to court of course and was thrown out as the gun owner did everything in his power to disable the gun including telling the officer. The cop got a strip rippied off him that day by the judge and deserved every bit of it. Letter of the law the gun owner was wrong, the spirit of the law the officer was wrong.