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| Originally Posted by DFWX
I was serious in my view of cheap, throw away firearms if necessary for personal safety as an option of traveling dangerous waters but also where you firearms are prohibited (or you are unsure if they are legal.) I have quietly slipped a few (very few) old rifles and shotguns over the opposite side rather than address the issue. For example, if you are traveling through a national or state park waterway, is there some risk in having firearms as many prohibit firearms in the park? I'll throw away a hundred or two dollars to avoid the question.
Though this many years ago (two decades), in foreign waters I would grease them up and drop them over in shallow water before entering the port, leaving a small float (large bobber) with a line down to them. When departing, would then dive down and retrieve them (couldn't find the location once). The cost of that old rifle and shotgun combined was less than $150 plus $20 in ammo in zip lock bags. I'd rather just toss that much money than cross my fingers and hope I'm up on the local laws of the hour for every jurisdiction I go through and everywhere I might anchor or dock.
I tend to disregard regulations instead to decide upon what I want/need and generally get away with it. If I'm in another state and feel like fishing, I will. If
I see a boat is approaching that might be DNR I'll quietly slip the pole off the side if I'm unsure if my fishing license for that state is expired.
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This is definitely off topic, but I personally find it sublimely refreshing that in this day of perceived and perhaps over-regulation, we can treat lives led in malingering and in contravention of the laws of the land and turn it into public fodder and acceptance. While your forthrightness of your transgressions is illuminating, what your not revealing is what haunts........