Strapping on a 9mm pistol, getting drunk, then crashing your snowmobile may not be the best idea a guy ever had. If the cops and reporters have it right, that's what a fellow did last week. He dumped his sled in an "open field" down near Storm Lake, badly injuring his back-seat lady. Officers charged him with OWI, and:
"In addition, authorities discovered ------ had a concealed 9 millimeter handgun on his person. Authorities say (he) had a valid permit to carry the gun, but when a person is intoxicated that permit is NOT valid, as well as when operating a snowmobile. An additional charge of carrying a concealed weapon was filed...".
I have no problem with the carrying-while-puked charge. Our two-year-old shall-issue law permits carry while sipping in bars and restaurants, but the second you hit .08 on the joy meter your CCW becomes worthless. That strikes me as reasonable. I never found great fault with one of the old NRA "10 rules" which said firearms and booze don't mix.
The carrying while snowmobiling or ATVing prohibition is part of DNR law {Iowa Code § 321G.13(2)} and is more debatable. A permit holder would seem to be no more danger to man or beast on a sled than at the wheel of a rust-bucket Ford Ranger with giant wheels, 4x4, and an aftermarket Zoomenkrash 460 V-8.
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I haven't kept close track of the gun bills in the Iowa legislature this session. For that you go to Stranded in Iowa. From what I have been following, it appears that there won't be much, if any, gun-law change this session. Our pols are fully occupied bickering about education reform (stop giggling), property tax relief (dammit, I told you to stop), and what to do with our modest budget surplus. About the only consensus of that last point is that we shouldn't give it to His Ineptness even though he badly needs it to buy votes from union ship welders in tidewater Virginia.
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