Traveling Across State Lines - Locked Container Gun/Ammo

[EzGoingKev]

OK so I know if I am traveling across multiple states I need to put my firearms in a locked container and store the ammo separately. Both items get locked in the trunk.

What if I wanted to travel with my G19 pistol, no 9mm ammo or mags, AND some .223 ammo for an AR that is already at my destination. Since the .223 ammo is not for the G19 can they be locked in the same case?

[zombiescometh]

My thinking is that should be ok but it really depends on the state laws though and how they are written.

[sevenhelmet]

Technically, I think the ammo still has to be separate from the firearm. Any LEO searching you should know better, but I wouldn't chance it in the very slight chance you are actually searched.

[ST911]

What states? Why does the ammo need to be separate from the gun?

[Mauser KAR98K]

What states? Why does the ammo need to be separate from the gun?

This is for states that do not recognize your CHL. If you are going through states that do not, or have magazine bans, you need to keep both gun and ammo separate in a different container and compartment of your vehicle, and do not stop for the night.

Read up on Firearm owners protection act for transporting.

[sevenhelmet]

This is for states that do not recognize your CHL. If you are going through states that do not, or have magazine bans, you need to keep both gun and ammo separate in a different container and compartment of your vehicle, and do not stop for the night.

Read up on Firearm owners protection act for transporting.

I thought I'd read the regs and not stopping for the night is a new one on me... do you have a source you can link for that? Cross-country moves would seem to be impractical (although all the states we stopped in on mine, I had CCW reciprocity.)

[ST911]

Read up on Firearm owners protection act for transporting.

I'm familiar with 18 USC 926A. Not finding where the gun and ammo need to be separate.

[SteyrAUG]

So long as the firearms in question are legal in the state you depart from and are legal at your destination, FOPA 86 "should" protect you regardless of what state you travel through. That said, 95% of LEOs you may encounter along the way probably have no idea that FOPA is a law or what it says.

[Mauser KAR98K]

Let me clarify, from my lowly research I had to do. I'm a trucker, so I'm following the rules set for RV.

I've been legal as I have two lock boxes to keep stuff seperate, but my destinations are in ban states at times, then I leave. (Company policy on the other hand...)

Hell, I hope of what I've read and researched has me legal.

[mikelowrey]

Steyr hit the spot.

From Wikipedia:

"Safe Passage" One of the law's provisions was that persons traveling from one place to another cannot be incarcerated for a firearms offense in a state that has strict gun control laws if the traveler is just passing through (short stops for food and gas), provided that the firearms and ammunition are not immediately accessible, that the firearms are unloaded and, in the case of a vehicle without a compartment separate from the driver’s compartment, the firearms are located in a locked container.[11]

Under this provision, someone driving from Virginia to a competition in Vermont with a locked hard case containing an unloaded handgun and a box of ammunition in the trunk could not be prosecuted in New Jersey or New York City for illegal possession of a handgun provided that the individual did not stop in New Jersey or New York for an extended period of time.