Roy, I gotta ask .......... why would you carry an AR offshore.
We used to carry a shotgun and sidearms while fishing rivers in southern Venezuela in the 70's, 80's, and 90's for protection. Our firearms stayed in Venezuela, with friends, between trips. In fact their still there, haven't fished their since 2000. When Hugo Chavez took office in 1999, it became clear that fishing there was no longer to be. We had many friends in the La Guardia National that looked out for us when we were in Country. When Chavez took office, our friends no longer knew us.