Property straddles state line

[clarionite]

My day job has me waist deep in property legal descriptions, title policies, etc all over the country. I am looking at a property that is in 2 states. It got me thinking, and it might be a crazy question, but how would gun ownership work if your house was sitting pretty in Virginia or WV but your pool, back yard, barn, detached garage, etc was in Maryland.

Could you carry at will inside your house but have to lock them up if you went out to your back pasture?

Just something that made me go hmmmmmmmm....

I lived in Nettleton, Mississippi many many years ago. There was a store a block away from me that straddled county lines. You could buy and even drink a beer on one side of the store, but couldn't take it to the other side.

[Dave2]

Make sure you're standing on the right side when you shoot. Seriously though, if it were me I'd take a defensive position in the house and call police for someone trespassing in the backyard. If they cross the line and try to enter the house all bets are off. The real question is which police department would respond. Would they confront a suspect outside their jurisdiction?
Reminds me of when the laws were less friendly to law abiding citizens in La, I can recall police officers suggesting that if you shot a BG outside your home trying to break in to drag him in the house before you called the police.

That strikes me as profoundly bad advice.

What part? If you are referring to what police officers were advising years ago, I would agree that would not only be unwise today, but it would also be unnecessary.

Yep, that's the part. Sorry, should've been clearer.

[jmra]

Make sure you're standing on the right side when you shoot. Seriously though, if it were me I'd take a defensive position in the house and call police for someone trespassing in the backyard. If they cross the line and try to enter the house all bets are off. The real question is which police department would respond. Would they confront a suspect outside their jurisdiction?
Reminds me of when the laws were less friendly to law abiding citizens in La, I can recall police officers suggesting that if you shot a BG outside your home trying to break in to drag him in the house before you called the police.

That strikes me as profoundly bad advice.

What part? If you are referring to what police officers were advising years ago, I would agree that would not only be unwise today, but it would also be unnecessary.

Yep, that's the part. Sorry, should've been clearer.

In context, at the time police were making those statements gun laws were much less friendly to La law abiding citizens than they are today. Shooting someone attempting to break into your home before they actually got into your home meant spending time in jail. Not the case today.