• xia@lemmy.ca
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    16 days ago

    Neat, but sounds like bad legal advice. Last time I looked it up, it said something like “possessing a firearm on or about one’s person”… so it doesn’t matter if it’s attached to your dog or pulled behind you on a skateboard or held in mid-air using some kind of hovering drone… if it is near you and under your control, you have it.

    IMO, the interesting case would be if the weapon is stored in your home (where nobody questions it may be), and you can summon it.

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      16 days ago

      Also worth noting it’s extremely dangerous to do with an untrained dog. All it takes is and enthusiastic “come here!” or a treat or something and now another person has access to your firearm while you don’t have anything.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      16 days ago

      … This is so stupid it hurts my brain.

      I actually tried to find laws relating to… stowing? carrying? transporting? a gun, in a holster, on a harness, on a dog.

      I could not find any.

      I very much hope this is completely legally dubious, but given the patchwork insanity of US gun laws… there might concievably be some kind of very specific situation where this would ‘work’ in some kind of legal sense…

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      16 days ago

      IMO, the interesting case would be if the weapon is stored in your home (where nobody questions it may be), and you can summon it.

      Maybe using a drone? Idk

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      16 days ago

      Still falls under your control in that instance, unless you’ve got someone else summoning it for you (we don’t need to talk about how, just assume it’s a drone and not magic) at which point we’re talking about a conspiracy.

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        16 days ago

        I was going to make a joke about that meaning having a set of car keys on your person would be driving, but then I remembered that people HAVE been arrested for drunk driving a parked car, simply because they were sitting in that car with the keys on their person. Our legal system…

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    16 days ago

    Reminds me of Dogmeat in Fallout 3. I was really worried about the buddy when the wiki said Dogmeat can die. Bullshit. Every time I hit VATS after that, I didn’t see a dog anywhere, just a dog shaped cruise missile repeatedly flying at the enemies, killing stuff dead. In Fallout: New Vegas, they upgraded the doggo into a real dog shaped cruise missile.

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      16 days ago

      before broken steel came out, dogmeat died quite a bit. after broken steel, the level increase messed with his health pool and “accidentally” gave dogmeat like 30,000 health

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    16 days ago

    this works until the pound gets called up for illegal carry without a license.