Joe is kinda spot on with the firearm laws and such. But here is the deal from my chat with my neighbor last night (more later Ally).
"Who is gunna be out there 200 miles deep into the trail to help you? So what you break a law to save your skin or eat that night. The world is to damn consensus of itself to allow anything anymore. In the wild, it's kill or be killed and I want to be on the other side of that and I don't care what law or ordinance I break at the end of the day because it don't matter in the end if I am bear food. They gunna write my skeleton a ticket and fine? Please....."
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