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Bill_in_VA · 08-13-2018, 06:39 PM

Here is your answer:

18USC 926(A) provides for safe passage. This is part of the 1986 Firearms Owners Protection Act.
Basically, if your guns are lawful at your point of origin and at your final destination you may lawfully transport them across state lines. The caveats are they must be unloaded and cased and you may only make reasonable stops during your travel. (Supper at Denny’s, a night at the Motel 6, etc. are fine. An overnight visit to the Grand Canyon or a few days layover at Cousin Bob’s are not.)

Remember too: don’t speed or do anything to draw attention to yourself, and don’t talk to cops, border patrol, etc. It’s none of their business what you are lawfully in possession of and are lawfully transporting .

Here’s your relevant section of the US Code: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/926A

18 U.S. Code § 926A - Interstate transportation of firearms
Notwithstanding any other provision of any law or any rule or regulation of a State or any political subdivision thereof, any person who is not otherwise prohibited by this chapter from transporting, shipping, or receiving a firearm shall be entitled to transport a firearm for any lawful purpose from any place where he may lawfully possess and carry such firearm to any other place where he may lawfully possess and carry such firearm if, during such transportation the firearm is unloaded, and neither the firearm nor any ammunition being transported is readily accessible or is directly accessible from the passenger compartment of such transporting vehicle: Provided, That in the case of a vehicle without a compartment separate from the driver’s compartment the firearm or ammunition shall be contained in a locked container other than the glove compartment or console.

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Bill_in_VA User Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: Southwest Virginia Posts: 391 Thanks: 802 Thanked 584 Times in 212 Posts	Here is your answer: 18USC 926(A) provides for safe passage. This is part of the 1986 Firearms Owners Protection Act. Basically, if your guns are lawful at your point of origin and at your final destination you may lawfully transport them across state lines. The caveats are they must be unloaded and cased and you may only make reasonable stops during your travel. (Supper at Denny’s, a night at the Motel 6, etc. are fine. An overnight visit to the Grand Canyon or a few days layover at Cousin Bob’s are not.) Remember too: don’t speed or do anything to draw attention to yourself, and don’t talk to cops, border patrol, etc. It’s none of their business what you are lawfully in possession of and are lawfully transporting . Here’s your relevant section of the US Code: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/926A 18 U.S. Code § 926A - Interstate transportation of firearms Notwithstanding any other provision of any law or any rule or regulation of a State or any political subdivision thereof, any person who is not otherwise prohibited by this chapter from transporting, shipping, or receiving a firearm shall be entitled to transport a firearm for any lawful purpose from any place where he may lawfully possess and carry such firearm to any other place where he may lawfully possess and carry such firearm if, during such transportation the firearm is unloaded, and neither the firearm nor any ammunition being transported is readily accessible or is directly accessible from the passenger compartment of such transporting vehicle: Provided, That in the case of a vehicle without a compartment separate from the driver’s compartment the firearm or ammunition shall be contained in a locked container other than the glove compartment or console. __________________ John 8:32 reive (riːv) vb (Military) (intr) dialect Scot and Northern English to go on a plundering raid [variant of reave] ˈreiver n e.g., " Some view the Border Reivers as loveable rogues."