Carrying While Trucking

Thats just it. Does that mean I should care either?

Im not your opponet. But there are states out here in the west and south where we don't worry about all that.

I remember my first time into Mass. All those signs size of a barn for half a mile. essentially no guns. We really mean no guns. Seriously really really mean it no guns.

Welcome to mass. HA.

Take away guns you have knives. Take away knives you have bats or cobble stone. Take that away you still have Brutus. Animals have fang and claw. We don't so we have to be smart about what to use for proper self defense.

Im finished here for this thread. Anything further takes me towards a subject that is not really productive.

 

Yea that place is crazy. I hated parking in the NE because truck drivers have to follow laws so its open season for criminals. They rest of USA is fine though. Not sure what their logic is in banning guns. Its not like criminals obey the law anyway

 

A million miler driver friend of mine used to carry in his truck, but not on his person. He was an ex-beret and a little old school. He had been dispatched to do a pickup at Hill AFB in Layton, UT. When he got to the gate, the guards asked him if he had any weapons, he told them the truth, and was denied admittance. He asked the guards if he could check the weapon with them, but they are not allowed to hold it. He ended up leaving the base and finding a discreet hiding place
in some bushes somewhere nearby. He then returned to the base and was admitted after they swept the truck.
On a later occasion he was again dispatched to the same base... This time he knew what to expect and he decided to carefully hide the weapon somewhere inside his reefer housing, where the smell of the diesel, and soot would mask the scent of gunpowder from the dogs.
He got in without them finding anything, and shortly after, he decided to just keep his firearms at home when on the road...

 

there's an app for that called legal heat, very handy to have

 

Help me understand how you would be sitting in jail if you werent the aggressor in the minds of the law?

 

Trucker severely beaten at Fort Hall truck stop
A good reason to carry?
The victim seems to think so now.
This happened in a rural community, so of course it got people's attention, but this sort of stuff and worse happens all the time from coast to coast.
I kept a handgun in my company truck where I could get to it quick when I ran OTR...Thank God I never needed it!

 

Yes in this case you had a form of castle doctrine breach with the bad guy inside your cab and sleeping space which is usually considered a house.

Since bad guy demands money, it's a robbery. Plus a credible threat and ability.

So all three criteria is matched to draw and open fire defensively. Continue until threat is stopped or running away.