buehl
PA
New Member
Joined: 06/13/2008
View Profile
 Offline
|
Will be leaving on a trip from PA to FL in a couple weeks. Mainly sticking to Rt95. What are the laws regarding transporting firearms in a class A? Mainly concerned with the southern states.
thanks
|
grldst
Dallas, GA
Senior Member
Joined: 12/10/2003
View Profile
|
They cannot be within your reach while driving.
|
just_dave
Bay City, MI
Senior Member
Joined: 04/18/2003
View Profile
Offline
|
I think keeping them unloaded and separate from ammunition is always a good idea as well. - Dave
2001 2500HD 6.0L 4.10 4x4 
1999 Jayco Eagle 285BHS 5er  Thank you Lord!
Draw-Tite 16K with Kwik-Slide
Prodigy
Bilsteins (on the truck)
Monroes (on the 5er)
Roady2 XM Radio
Perception Swifty 9.5 Kayaks
Pelican Break Kayak
|
gswcgi
Wandering
Senior Member
Joined: 08/03/2004
View Profile
|
You need to go on-line and check with each state that you are going to travel through or stay in. Plus the Federal laws have some impact on moving firearms between states. No simple answer even if you have a concealed carry permit for some states. It is not true that all states prohibit carrying a loaded weapon in your vehicle. As an example, Nevada allows loaded weapons to be carried in a vehicle. I am not an expert on the subject nor an Attorney but I do have concealed weapon permits for many states that have reciprocity with my home state of Nevada and Utah. Check the states you are going through.
'03 Safari, DP, 36" Nissan 4X4 toad
|
pfunk
Shelby Township, MI
Senior Member
Joined: 08/12/2008
View Profile
Offline
|
Id check the state laws on transporting in each state you plan to go through
2000 Holiday Rambler Endeavor
300 Cat 6spd Ally
|
|
|
Bill & Cathy
Upper Lake, CA
Senior Member
Joined: 04/21/2003
View Profile
Good Sam RV Club
Offline
|
Unless you plan to go through each state blasting away, it probably won't make much difference. We always travel armed -- guns and ammo kept separately, and guns are, of course, never loaded while we're traveling (duh). If we're in an area that gives us the willies, we keep the guns more accessible. Generally, they're locked away in the safe. We also invested in a booklet regarding the firearm laws in the 50 states (a Google search might find that for you). And though each state differes, common sense still applies.
I've never heard of any RV being stopped by the local fuzz for a firearms search. Treat your firearms with respect, treat the law with respect, keep to the speed limit, don't drive like a lunatic, and nobody will think twice about whether you're armed or not.
Bill/Cathy
Good Sam Life Members, FMCA #F323639, Safari International, Thousand Trails, Safari So Good Club, Safari R Us Club
'02 Safari Zanzibar, 40' DP, 2 Slides, center entry, '03 Suzuki XL7
|
magicbus
LBI, NJ or Nantucket, MA
Senior Member
Joined: 06/16/2002
View Profile
|
buehl wrote:Mainly concerned with the southern states. They are required to be on a rack in the rear window.
Dave
Life doesn't come with a safety fence around it... enjoy it anyway.
|
Admiral
Upstate Ohio
Senior Member
Joined: 06/08/2003
View Profile
|
For those of you with a CCW permit, here's a link where you can build and print a map showing which states have reciprocity to your home state and will allow you to carry your gun in the same manner. Wisconsin and Illinois do not permit carrying concealed weapons at all.
Build a reciprocity map
2004 Damon Daybreak 2960F V-10
05 Honda Element LX
Practice safe dining....use condiments.
|
George Beggs
Homosassa, FL.
Senior Member
Joined: 01/15/2003
View Profile
Good Sam RV Club
Offline
|
I have a concealed carry permit that is honored in most states. When I have my gun in the motorhome it is loaded and not on a rack in the back window. The NRA has a lot of information on gun laws.
George & Linda
1999 Pinnacle F53 6.8L V10
Banks Transcommand
|
b ubblerboy64
946 Ashton Shippensburg Pa 17257
Senior Member
Joined: 10/18/2004
View Profile
|
You also have to consider that some cities have laws which are contrary to the states in which they are located. Unless you are hunting and carrying the guns for that purpose the idea of carrying an unloaded gun for self defense seems like a rather unreasonable plan in my opinion. If you have time to get the gun, go to a different location to load it you are in an unusual self defense situation. I don't have an answer for this one. It seems to me that your choice is to break the law(s) or to leave the guns at home. I would hope that most reasonable police would look at the mobile home as a home and if self defense was required they would ignore the "fine print" on these laws. God help the person who uses the gun and fines himself trying to defend an unnecessary shooting. I don't want to start a gun rights debate but it would seem which ever side of the fence you find yourself it would at least seem reasonable to have more uniform laws and enforcement. In the end it's up to the individual to accept the risk either being unarmed or armed and breaking the laws. I tend to think the better choice is to go with out the gun but I must admit that I feel some what vulnerable. I guess I feel the risk of getting caught are greater then the risks of needing to defend myself. While in Pa and legal I carry a LOADED gun in a readly available location. I have a permit to do so.
John Heckman
|
|
|
