Black Friday...

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UPDATE: So myself and two other members went, it was a lot of fun (especially one member's SCAR-H!)... but while up at Squaw Pass (the furthest site up), we had a happy little visit from a DOW officer. He first informed us that they're under a lot of pressure to shut the area down to shooting sports, and politely asked that we clean up after ourselves (as I did for other people too)- this is not new information. Lets hope they don't shut down Squaw, because then I'll be forced to go over an hour away at Harris park to shoot, and I'd rather not.
Then he asked if we had any rifles stored in our cars and asked to verify that they were unloaded. Myself and another member had our ARs on the beds of our trucks (technically not *in* the vehicle), but they were unloaded. The officer said he had been writing a lot of tickets lately. My question is, if it's in the bed of the truck and loaded, is that still a ticketable offense?

Overall, a good day of shooting, but it gets pretty cold up at 10,400ft in late Nov...

Yes. Because even though the bed isn't "in" the vehicle it's still considered, for legal purposes, in the vehicle... Trunk is the same way.

Anything within the confines of the vehicle is going to be considered "inside" the vehicle. Stealing something out of the bed of someone's truck and breaking out their window and taking their stereo is the same offence because the stuff in the bed is "within the confines." Does that make sense?

This is a "hunting law", to make it simple. It's to deter people from "road hunting" and it's also a safety thing. There's more than one story about someone pulling a rifle out of a bed/trunk and blasting a hole in his buddies back or in his own chest.