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EPISODE 2

In Colorado, as in most states, for safety’s sake it is illegal to possess a loaded gun (cartridge in the chamber) in a vehicle. It is also illegal to fire a weapon from a vehicle, whether on or off road and it is illegal to fire from or across a public road. Yet so many Colorado hunters, despite having to take mandatory hunter safety classes before they can buy a hunting license, somehow rationalize that the seconds that it will save them if a deer or a pheasant runs across the road in front of them justifies breaking those rules.

The ones I can’t figure out are the knot-heads that store their weapons in the bed of the pickup or the back of their SUV fully loaded. There is no advantage and often it places themselves or their passengers in great danger. I once wrote a ticket up in Sedgwick County to a goose hunter who was driving alone off road in a Suburban with a collection of long guns stacked inside the rear cargo door with barrels aiming right at his seat. The top one in the stack was an enormous 10 gauge shotgun fully loaded with giant shells that looked like small sticks of dynamite! What on earth was he thinking? The fine wasn’t very large. Unfortunately you can’t write someone a ticket for being stupid. Read more…