I have a question about the "Intent to go armed" law.
From Tn Laws
http://www.nraila.org/statelawpdfs/tnSL.pdf"It is unlawful for any person to carry “with the
intent to go armed” a firearm, knife with a blade
length exceeding four inches, or a club. The burden
is on the state to show an “intent to go armed.”"
next it says:
"It is a defense to unlawful carrying if the possession
or carrying was:
• Incident to lawful hunting, trapping, fishing,
camping, sport shooting or other lawful activity;"
Would going to the range not constitute "Shooting Sport or other lawful activity"?
I used to just put my unloaded guns in the car and ammo in the trunk, so I never had to think about this too much.
But now I have a regular cab truck. But neither the guns or the ammo is going in the bed so they can roll around, and I take too much ammo with me to lock it in the glovebox or something so how does one satisfy "Ammo not in general vicinity"?
Would putting the guns behind the seat and the ammo in the floorboard work? There's no way I would be able to reach behind the seat, take a gun out of a case, get to ammo and load a weapon while in the drivers seat but as usual when dealing with BATF I haven't found specifics.