Safe storage at home?

[SwissArmyMan]

Pop quiz...
Let's say you have a safe in a locked room. Can you store a loaded magazine besides a restricted firearm??

Asking for a friend!!

[blacksmithden]

Pop quiz...
Let's say you have a safe in a locked room. Can you store a loaded magazine besides a restricted firearm??

Asking for a friend!!

100% fine. The safe doesn't even have to be in a locked room.

[SwissArmyMan]

100% fine. The safe doesn't even have to be in a locked room.

Thanks for response.
The safe is in a gun room. Ammo is just in the locked room.

[blacksmithden]

Thanks for response.
The safe is in a gun room. Ammo is just in the locked room.

Its worded in such a way that you can story your ammo with your guns in your safe, just as long as the guns aren't actually loaded. A loaded magazine is not a gun, and a gun is not loaded if the magazine isn't actually in it. I vaguely remember a case (might have been in the US, so don't quote me on this) where someone had a magazine partly inserted in the mag well and the judge ruled that it still wasn't loaded. I wouldn't want to pay the legal fees to argue that one out in court though.

On a side note, I know someone who got off an impaired charge (he had no intention of driving) because the door of the car wasn't closed. He knew he couldn't drive but REALLY didn't want to leave it where he had parked. He was digging around in the center console for our (we both worked in the same garage) tow truck drivers card. He was going to call him to tow the car for him. Apparently an overzealous bouncer decided that he was going to keep him from driving and grabbed his belt from behind (his feet were still on the ground) and dragged him out of the car. My co-worker was a big guy, and ex-airborne. He laid the bouncer out on the ground. The cops showed up, and charged him with "operating" a motor vehicle while impaired. Nobody disputed that he wasn't actually seated in the car and the door was open. The judge threw it out, saying "well, you can't drive a car with the doors open". You never know how these things are going to go.