Carry and Indian Reservations

[scott_g]

When I drive thru reservations I am very careful about speed and all traffic laws. Avoiding meeting the local LEO is important as first step. Common sense and good behavior is always a good rule.


Rich

That's all find and dandy until you're (potentially) taken someplace on the rez against your will and they find your firearm(s). "Against your will" as in unconscious from a traffic accident, medical emergency, etc. Don't think for a SECOND it can't happen to you.

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[mlr1m]

This thread make has got me to thinking. In Oklahoma we do not have and never had Reservations. We have land owned and governed by tribes. If a Tribe buys a piece of land along the interstate and builds a store it becomes tribal land. These small parcels are under Tribal law. I wonder how many people walk into these establishments armed and not knowing that they just entered Tribal lands?

Michael

[scott_g]

This thread make has got me to thinking. In Oklahoma we do not have and never had Reservations. We have land owned and governed by tribes. If a Tribe buys a piece of land along the interstate and builds a store it becomes tribal land. These small parcels are under Tribal law. I wonder how many people walk into these establishments armed and not knowing that they just entered Tribal lands?

Michael

Same thing in the Prescott area of AZ with businesses on tribal lands. And, LOTS of people open carry in that area of AZ, as I see it all the time when I visit family. Never heard of anyone being arrested or detained for it, though. I guess the Yavapai either don't care or they realize how STUPID it would be to harass people about it because they'd lose a ton of business from people boycotting. That is a very pro-gun area with Ruger and Gunsite Academy right there locally.

[SFCDan]

I'm glad someone brought this up as I wondered the legality of this.

[scott_g]

I'm glad someone brought this up as I wondered the legality of this.

And, you'll never get a concrete answer, either. Too many variables...

[ken45]

And, you'll never get a concrete answer, either. Too many variables...

But of course, when we are traveling, we are REQUIRED to know what law applies....

[scott_g]

But of course, when we are traveling, we are REQUIRED to know what law applies....

Good luck finding them all out, too... Since this thread is about Indian reservations, a lot of those so-called "laws" aren't even codified and/or written down. They're just passed on word-of-mouth and can change at any time. It's not like there's some internet database, such as handgunlaw.us, you can search for reservations/laws in every state.

[sdprof]

Good luck finding them all out, too... Since this thread is about Indian reservations, a lot of those so-called "laws" aren't even codified and/or written down. They're just passed on word-of-mouth and can change at any time depending on how "red man no like white man with boom stick" on his land that particular day. It's not like there's some internet database, such as handgunlaw.us, you can search for reservations/laws in every state.

Here's a start: Tribal* Codes or Statutes

[scott_g]

Here's a start: Tribal* Codes or Statutes

Yeah, you go have fun wading through all that unorganized information. Didn't see anything relating to firearms laws specifically, either, on a cursory scan.

[multistage]

I have many friends from my time in Montana who are Indian. Good men. Their land, their rules. Don't like it? Don't go.

[ken45]

Their land, their rules. Don't like it? Don't go.

So we give up the use of the Interstate Highway system? That kind of makes a mess of the United States.

Ken

[scott_g]

So we give up the use of the Interstate Highway system? That kind of makes a mess of the United States.

Ken

Exactly. Apparently, someone doesn't get that sometimes it's unavoidable.

[multistage]

You are most likely OK on the interstate. I'm talking about when you get out of your car. Like it or not, they make the rules on their land.

Most of those friends were with me when some old hippies had a public celebration for the old days when they protested the Vietnam war. We protested the protesters. All of us had fathers that served over there. The hippies cut the celebration short.

As I said, good men. My apologies if my initial bark was irrelevant to the thread.

[Richard58]

Native Americans are the original holders of this USA, however the land probably changed hands plenty of times during wars between Indian tribes before white man or the Spanish were here. How long the USA will be here is any bodies guess. Things change through the ages and nothings new under the sun.

Saying all this, there is a lot to be said abt living by the golden rule....

[scott_g]

Native Americans are the original holders of this USA, however the land probably changed hands plenty of times during wars between Indian tribes before white man or the Spanish were here. How long the USA will be here is any bodies guess. Things change through the ages and nothings new under the sun.

Saying all this, there is a lot to be said abt living by the golden rule....

Nope. FAIL. The very first humans to enter and settle North America were NOT "Native Americans" because they weren't even from here. Go review your anthropology...