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Ultimately you are going to have to get an authoritative answer from an actual lawyer that knows federal law. My speculations are worth less than the paper they aren't printed on.

However, it is difficult to impossible to find reports of successful prosecutions for violations of these regulations. I'm not saying they don't happen, but they seem to be rare.

- Jim

chasfm11 wrote:I was simply trying to understand my exposure if it occurred.

I don't know what the penalty is for violating 36 C.F.R. § 327.13(a).

It's difficult to figure out what the penalty is for violating federal regulations (as opposed to laws). Many of the ones that people worry about are misdemeanors punishable only by a fine, and the fine has often been made negligible by inflation. $50 or $100 was a chunk of change 30 or 40 years ago, as you know.

- Jim

I am not a lawyer, but I see that regulation as being in conflict with FOPA86. No U.S. attorney is going to try to prosecute it against an interstate traveler who is not poaching or shooting up the landscape (both of which would be state crimes).

If a federal LEO searches your RV, either you are way down the creek without a paddle, or they do not have good probable cause for the search. Sober white people who speak English just don't get searched like that.

- Jim

Welcome to the forum

What's your question?

I'm assuming that I cannot rely on on following the Federal firearms transport rules (weapon and ammo locked in separate containers and away from the driver) to get me out of having a firearm on Federally controlled property.

This is incorrect. FOPA86 is federal law always and everywhere in the United States except for secure areas like military reservations. (Some lucky winner is going to get to make case law in the District of Columbia some day.)

36 C.F.R. § 327.13(a) prohibits loaded firearms on USACE lands and waters. (It also prohibits bows and arrows by definition, which seems unfair.)

- Jim