• xia@lemmy.caEnglish
    19·
    2 months 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.

    • variablenine
      12·
      2 months 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.

      • backalleycoyote@lemmy.today
        5·
        2 months ago

        I do find the mental image of a panicked boogaloo begging his holster dog to recall as it chases squirrels. One less bigot, plus you go home with a free dog and gun!

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      2 months 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…

    • Axolotl@feddit.it
      2·
      2 months 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

    • stray@pawb.social
      2·
      2 months ago

      Honestly, the John Wick films are a bit tired at this point. I think he should die at the end of one so that his dog can go on a 2- to 3-film killing spree during which he raises a troubled youth with a heart of gold, abandoned by the system, and then the dog gets killed at the end of those movies so the kid can go on a killing spree and maybe rescue an abused circus animal or something.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      No. Of coarse not. Everybody says they hate pedophiles, but nobody does anything about it…well, except that one guy in July 2024 in PA. That guy was almost a hero. A hero like Luigi. To quote Maxwell Smart: “Missed it by THAT much”

  • Rose@slrpnk.net
    3·
    2 months 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.

    • BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months 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

  • Smaile@lemmy.ca
    2·
    2 months ago

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