---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 C.F.R. § 27.42"
title: "50"
number: "27.42"
heading: "Firearms."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/50/27.42"
---

# §27.42. Firearms.


Only the following persons may possess, use, or transport firearms on national wildlife refuges in accordance with this section and applicable Federal and State law:

- (a) **Persons using firearms for public hunting under the provisions of 50 CFR part 32.**
- (b) Persons carrying unloaded firearms, that are dismantled or cased, in vehicles and boats over routes of travel designated under the provision of subchapter C.
- (c) **Persons authorized to use firearms for the taking of specimens of wildlife for scientific purposes.**
- (d) Persons authorized by special regulations or permits to possess or use firearms for the protection of property, for field trials, and other special purposes.
- (e) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Chapter, persons may possess, carry, and transport concealed, loaded, and operable firearms within a national wildlife refuge in accordance with the laws of the state in which the wildlife refuge, or that portion thereof, is located, except as otherwise prohibited by applicable Federal law.

## Notes

### Amendments

[46 FR 47230, Sept. 25, 1981, as amended at 73 FR 74971, Dec. 10, 2008]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 685, 752, 690d; 16 U.S.C. 460k, 460 l -6d, 664, 668dd, 685, 690d, 715i, 715s, 725; 43 U.S.C. 315a.

### Source

Source: 41 FR 9168, Mar. 3, 1976, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[46 FR 47230, Sept. 25, 1981, as amended at 73 FR 74971, Dec. 10, 2008]