NAC504.135. Restrictions on use of firearms and ammunition.

     1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 6, the discharging of a rifle or pistol is prohibited on the following wildlife management areas:

     (a) Overton in Clark County.

     (b) Key Pittman in Lincoln County.

     (c) Wayne E. Kirch in Nye County.

     (d) Scripps in Washoe County.

     (e) Mason Valley in Lyon County.

     2. Deer may be hunted on the Mason Valley and Wayne E. Kirch Wildlife Management Areas only by persons using:

     (a) Shotguns and rifled shotgun slugs or shotgun rounds with sabots that contain a single expanding projectile; or

     (b) Longbows and arrows.

Ê A shotgun that is used to hunt deer pursuant to this subsection may be equipped with a smoothbore barrel or a barrel that is partially or fully rifled.

     3. The use of shotguns capable of holding more than three shells is prohibited on all wildlife management areas owned or managed by this State unless the shotgun is plugged with a one-piece filler, incapable of removal without disassembling the gun, so that the total capacity of the shotgun does not exceed three shells.

     4. The use or possession of shells for a shotgun containing shot that is toxic or larger than standard-size T is prohibited on the following wildlife management areas:

     (a) Overton in Clark County.

     (b) Key Pittman in Lincoln County.

     (c) Wayne E. Kirch in Nye County.

     (d) Scripps in Washoe County.

     (e) Mason Valley in Lyon County.

     (f) Fernley in Lyon County.

     (g) Alkali Lake in Lyon County.

     (h) Humboldt in Churchill and Pershing Counties.

     (i) Steptoe Valley in White Pine County.

     (j) Franklin Lake in Elko County.

     5. The use or possession of shotgun rounds with sabots that contain other than rifled slugs or a single expanding projectile is prohibited on all wildlife management areas owned or managed by this State.

     6. The provisions of subsection 1 do not apply to persons authorized by the Department to use rifles and pistols for the control of predatory animals and rodents.

     7. For the purposes of this section, all shot shall be deemed toxic unless it has been approved as nontoxic by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service pursuant to 50 C.F.R. § 20.134.

     [Bd. of Fish & Game Comm’rs, No. 9 § 23.01-9, eff. 12-29-66; A 10-1-73; 9-1-78; 9-1-80]—(NAC A by Bd. of Wildlife Comm’rs, 1-2-86; 8-22-86, eff. 9-15-86; 10-16-87; 9-13-91; R054-02, 11-19-2002, eff. 3-1-2003; R185-05, 2-23-2006)