This is a great improvement over the older laws requiring proof of ail unlawful intent in order to convict for merely carrying concealed weapons. California, Indiana, and Oregon, supra note 3, have already enacted this section. This provision, forbidding the carrying of pistols in any vehicle, concealed or otherwise, is an addition to the 1926 draft of the Act and was designed to prevent a pursued criminal from transferring a weapon from his pocket to a hiding place in his automobile. L. Rev. 812. The latest Illinois statute, however.
Similar laws are in effect in practically every jurisdiction.
So far as concerns any preventive effect which such a statute might have, this requirement amounts almost to nullification. The Florida law forbids any unlicensed person to have a pistol on or about his person, concealed or otherwise. In Mississippi a similar provision has been construed to forbid the carrying of a concealed pistol even in the home of the owner. A few states include travelers in this category. The Iowa law, however, admits of no exceptions whatever, even police officers being required to secure permits to carry concealed weapons.