This text of North Dakota § 62.1-04-01 (Definition of concealed) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering North Dakota primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
A firearm or dangerous weapon is concealed if it is carried in such a manner as to not be
discernible by the ordinary observation of a passerby. There is no requirement that there be
absolute invisibility of the firearm or dangerous weapon, merely that it not be ordinarily
discernible. A firearm or dangerous weapon is considered concealed if it is not secured, and is
worn under clothing or carried in a bundle that is held or carried by the individual, or transported
in a vehicle under the individual's control or direction and available to the individual, including
beneath the seat or in a glove compartment. A firearm or dangerous weapon is not considered
concealed if it is:
1.Carried in a belt holster which is wholly or substantially visible or carried in a case
designed for carrying a fi
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A firearm or dangerous weapon is concealed if it is carried in such a manner as to not be
discernible by the ordinary observation of a passerby. There is no requirement that there be
absolute invisibility of the firearm or dangerous weapon, merely that it not be ordinarily
discernible. A firearm or dangerous weapon is considered concealed if it is not secured, and is
worn under clothing or carried in a bundle that is held or carried by the individual, or transported
in a vehicle under the individual's control or direction and available to the individual, including
beneath the seat or in a glove compartment. A firearm or dangerous weapon is not considered
concealed if it is:
1. Carried in a belt holster which is wholly or substantially visible or carried in a case
designed for carrying a firearm or dangerous weapon and which is wholly or
substantially visible;
2. Locked in a closed trunk or luggage compartment of a motor vehicle;
3. Carried in the field while lawfully engaged in hunting, trapping, or target shooting,
whether visible or not;
4. Carried by any person permitted by law to possess a handgun unloaded and in a
secure wrapper from the place of purchase to that person's home or place of business,
or to a place of repair, or back from those locations; or
5. A bow and arrow, rifle, shotgun, unloaded handgun, or a weapon that will expel, or is
readily capable of expelling, a projectile by the action of a spring, compressed air, or
compressed gas including any such weapon commonly referred to as a BB gun, air
rifle, or CO gun, while carried in a motor vehicle.
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