Deer: archery season: concealed firearms.

Existing law establishes an archery season for the taking of deer with bow and arrow. Existing law prohibits a person taking or attempting to take deer during that archery season from carrying, or having under his or her immediate control, any firearm of any kind. Other existing law generally makes carrying a concealed firearm a crime, but establishes specified exceptions, including exceptions for peace officers, honorably retired peace officers, and hunters and fishermen while engaged in hunting or fishing. This bill would revise that archery provision to authorize a peace officer, whether active or honorably retired, to carry a firearm capable of being concealed on his or her person while engaged in the taking of deer with bow and arrow, but would prohibit taking or attempting to take deer with that firearm.