Name the most asinine firearms law you can think of

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Two bizarre ones in NYS

Leaning a loaded long gun against a vehicle is the same as having a loaded long gun in the vehicle, against the law.

Possessing a magazine manufactured after 1994 that holds more than 10 rounds is a felony. Just the magazine by itself. No gun or ammo required.
 
How about this one:

At one point, if you were convicted in another country of a crime punishable by more than a year in prison, you are ineligible to own a firearm in the US. Since some countries make it a felony to be a Christian or for a woman to speak to a man that she is not related to, you could lose your 2A rights to firearms based upon a law that violates your 1A rights. Small v United States in 2005 corrected this, even though this law professor seems to think that an interpretation of foreign felonies making you ineligible to own firearms makes sense.

Shortly after Smalls, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) introduced legislation to amend 18 USC 922, to prevent individuals convicted of felonies in foreign countries from purchasing firearms in the U.S. McCarthy’s bill amends current law to state that a person “convicted in any court, including any foreign court, of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year” shall not be able to possess a firearm.

“We cannot allow convicted drug dealers, murderers, rapists, and even terrorists to purchase guns just because their crimes occurred in another country,” said McCarthy.

She is still attempting to make this into law.
 
In Missouri I can keep a loaded pistol readily accessible in my vehicle without a CCW. Same thing in Arkansas.

But if I cross the border with a readily accessible loaded pistol under federal law I am in violation.

So theoretically I must stop before crossing the border, unload, place the pistol in a lock box, cross the border, stop again, and then I can take the pistol out of the lock box and reload.

You might say that is crossing the line.

HUH!?! What are you talking about!?
 
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I would say almost any gun law in Canada is pretty stupid. There are so many it's not funny. They almost had it so you could not buy ammo that you never owned a gun for but they couldn't figure out how to make it work. The fact we have to have a permit to buy ammo period sucks big time also. Certain people not mentioning anybody made sure they stocked up before it became law just in case it took a while to get the permit. Fact that we can only fire a handgun on a handgun range is pretty dumb also.
 
Here's one for ya

New Mexico
Can't carry a concealed handgun on a snowmobile. I get a laugh every time I read this one.l
 
In Canada we can only have pepper spray that has a bear or a dog on the label. It's considered a dangerous weapon if it has a picture of a person on it. They confiscate it at the border all the time becasue of that. For some reason people don't spray humans with bear pepper spray.
 
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