GuyWithQuestions
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I was wondering what federal laws they have on pepper spray? I know you can't bring it into the secured area of airlines. Are there any other laws? If it's a federal building that's not secured and no metal detectors, would that be off limits? For example, if you go to the post office is it okay to have it on you when you go inside? If you walk into an IRS building to ask a question about taxes, would that be okay? I would assume that it would be legal in National Parks, because there's grizzly bear pepper spray and people go on hikes in Yellowstone, or is there something I'm not aware of?
My second question is: are there any issues when transporting pepper spray from one pepper spray friendly state to another one, but having a state in the middle that's not, even if you lock it up in a trunk? For example, I live in Utah. Let's say I was driving to California which allows up to 2.5 oz of pepper spray. On handgunlaw.us, it said that Nevada only allows up to 2.0 oz. So if I were transporting 2.5 oz to go with me on a vacation to California and had it locked up in the trunk when going through Nevada, what are the chances of me getting in trouble if law enforcement were to find that it was locked up in my trunk? Or if someone is traveling through a place like D.C. where pepper spray has to be registered and so they just lock it up in their trunk when passing through the city or while staying there for a day or two on a multi-state vacation? Let's say a police officer for some reason gets legal permission to look in your trunk and he says, "This isn't registered!" You, "I was traveling from one state that it's legal to another and had it locked up and inaccessible in the trunk. Since this is an interstate issue it would be a federal issue not a state issue." Would the police officer buy it, or say "okay we'll send the feds after you" but then soon find out there's nothing illegal on the federal level, or would you just get arrested and the officer wouldn't care?
My second question is: are there any issues when transporting pepper spray from one pepper spray friendly state to another one, but having a state in the middle that's not, even if you lock it up in a trunk? For example, I live in Utah. Let's say I was driving to California which allows up to 2.5 oz of pepper spray. On handgunlaw.us, it said that Nevada only allows up to 2.0 oz. So if I were transporting 2.5 oz to go with me on a vacation to California and had it locked up in the trunk when going through Nevada, what are the chances of me getting in trouble if law enforcement were to find that it was locked up in my trunk? Or if someone is traveling through a place like D.C. where pepper spray has to be registered and so they just lock it up in their trunk when passing through the city or while staying there for a day or two on a multi-state vacation? Let's say a police officer for some reason gets legal permission to look in your trunk and he says, "This isn't registered!" You, "I was traveling from one state that it's legal to another and had it locked up and inaccessible in the trunk. Since this is an interstate issue it would be a federal issue not a state issue." Would the police officer buy it, or say "okay we'll send the feds after you" but then soon find out there's nothing illegal on the federal level, or would you just get arrested and the officer wouldn't care?