Posted on 09/21/2009 8:55:52 PM PDT by majstoll
With all the howling this week over at the New York Times Editorial Board about Senate passage of the Wicker Amendment, its refreshing to learn that the Board of Directors of the Virginia Rail Express voted yesterday to let train riders carry loaded guns. While the Wicker Amendment passed by the Senate this week requires AMTRAK to let train riders check their unloaded guns in cases onto trains as is done by the airlines, the VRE Board passed a resolution just two days later (September 18, 2009) to let riders carry loaded guns.
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However, as is the case in vehicle or foot travel, nobody commits a crime under federal law (unless you count DC law) for merely traveling the country while carrying your loaded gun on AMTRAK.
(Excerpt) Read more at opencarry.org ...
BTTT
There will be blood on the tracks. /s
Place holder for later reading.
Jesse James, beware!
Is that Eric’s brother?
If VRE had a more expansive route system this would be a boon for all Virginia gun owners. VRE only has about 200 or so miles of track, and runs between Fredericksburg and Union Station in DC, and from Union Station to Manassas. Virginia has 95 counties, VRE only exists in a total of five (Stafford, Prince William, Fairfax, Arlington, and Loudon) with a terminus at the edge of a sixth (Spotsylvania).
What this accomplishes should be obvious, but just in case..............this can be the start of getting guns allowed on trains in nearby areas also.
Have you seen the active national map of how CCW laws etc have spread across the country? Notice that it began with just a state or two, and in time spread to nearly the whole country.
>>>> nobody commits a crime under federal law (unless you count DC law) for merely traveling the country while carrying your loaded gun on AMTRAK. <<<<
I don’t think DC has ever gotten a legal exemption from federal peaceable journey laws.
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