OTR Truck Drivers Who Want To Protect Themselves

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I have seen saw threads on here with people curious about carrying a weapon in a rigg. There was a Trucking Magazine that I was reading that shed some light on this. For the longest time I misplaced this magazine and couldn't find it. Until today.



I knew this darn thing was around here some where. This is a April 2011 issue of Truckers News. For those of you who will not be able to hunt down this issue. I'll type out a little from it. Let me know if you want some more info.

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Nothing stirs a heated debate like truckers carrying firearms for protection. One of the most pervasive myths about this topic is that there's a federal law against drivers carrying a firearm in a commercial motor vehicle. No such law exists and in fact, there is law that says you can.
In the federal regulatory code, Title 18 Section 926(a) The Peaceable Journey Act, under Part 1 Chapter 44, states:
"Notwithstanding any other provision of any law or any rule or regulation of a State or any political sub-division thereof, any person who is not otherwise prohibited by this chapter from transporting, shipping, or receiving a firearm shall be entitled to transport a firearm for any lawful purpose from any place where he may lawfully possess and carry such firearm to any other place where he may lawfully possess and carry such firearm if, during such transportation, the fire arm is unloaded and neither the firearm nor any ammunition being transported is readily accessible or is directly accessible from the passenger compartment of such transporting vehicle"

Some helpful information from me to you.
Take care out there
Punisher Out