Difdi
Regular Member
I had an odd question posed to me today by a friend:
If I am standing PRECISELY astride a state border (perhaps using differential GPS to get there), which state's laws govern my firearm carry? Would which side of my body (or which hand) I have the gun on matter?
I doubt it has ever happened before in history. But it's an odd thing to consider, isn't it? A more plausible scenario is standing astride city limits, I had a friend years back who technically would have been required to switch schools if his parents ever swapped which bedrooms belonged to him and his brother. If you're in a state without preemption, and one city bans open carry and the other does not, which laws apply to someone with literally one foot in each city?
If I am standing PRECISELY astride a state border (perhaps using differential GPS to get there), which state's laws govern my firearm carry? Would which side of my body (or which hand) I have the gun on matter?
I doubt it has ever happened before in history. But it's an odd thing to consider, isn't it? A more plausible scenario is standing astride city limits, I had a friend years back who technically would have been required to switch schools if his parents ever swapped which bedrooms belonged to him and his brother. If you're in a state without preemption, and one city bans open carry and the other does not, which laws apply to someone with literally one foot in each city?