Travelling with guns to NH

[Fragilityh14]

one of my friends who has decided that the free state is the way to go, is concerned about travelling through the Iron Curtain to reach the land of freedom. I'm assuming with handguns it is enough to have them in the trunk...or in the trunk AND locked? He has multiple handguns including a glock .40 which I'm guessing you dont want to get found in your car in New York (wasn't someone just arrested for something like that?)

Any info about what one should do when driving all the way across the country with guns would be appreciated.

[Puke]

Don't speed or do anything else to draw attention to yourself.

[slimpickens]

all guns should be unloaded, in a case, in the trunk preferably. also clips that are loaded should be in separate  case from gun.

[Lex]

Going through the Iron Curtain you can't have any guns, period. Even if it's cased in cement and in your trunk in a safe with ten locks, you could still be facing serious jail time.

Best thing would be to mail the guns to yourself. This is perfectly legal as long as you are the one who mails them and also the one who picks them up at the post office.

Another option is to fly and check your guns into baggage.

Other than that it it's a pretty dangerous proposition going through New York, where it is illegal to have any gun anywhere in your car without a permit and you can't get a permit without being a resident of New York.

[OnGard4Liberty]

The only way one's car will be searched is if they consent or are arrested (or some other reasons your car would be seized). 

[Spencer]

Drive around New York; don't give them the satisfaction or the business.

[error]

Drive around New York; don't give them the satisfaction or the business.

You can't drive around New York without going through Canada, and they're even worse with respect to firearms.

[porcupine kate]

Go around New Jersey. Pennsylvania has less traffic, tolls and gun laws.  In New Jersey a single hollow point bullet is a felony.  Don't take a chance that one is rolling around under the seat.  They also profile cars with gun friendly state license plates like Virginia and Texas.

New York city and DC are big NO-NOs to drive through with guns. Upstate New York isn't as bad as the city.
Massachutses it a nightmare also. 

If you are coming from the south come through VA to PA on 81 and cut over to Albany NY on 88 and then go through Vermont.  No tolls, little traffic and better traveling.

Illinois and Ohio are very bad in the Midwest.

[mvpel]

You're protected by the Firearms Owner Protection act as long as the firearms you possess are legal in your origin and destination states.  I'll see if I can find the specifics.

[Pat K]

You're protected by the Firearms Owner Protection act as long as the firearms you possess are legal in your origin and destination states.  I'll see if I can find the specifics.

Yes this is true, but trying to argue it with a NJ or NY trooper
won't be any fun.

[slimpickens]

wow, i didn't know how bad the gun control was in some states. i need to get out more.

[Bald Eagle]

It's the "peaceable journey" clause of the McLure-Volkmer Act.

But then, as I always warned my customers, the legality of the situation and the reality are two different things when pulled over on the side of the road by some overzealous nazi fascist trooper with a 9-foot stick up his ass.

I put empty-chamber indicators in all of my firearms, cable or trigger-locked them ( ), them packaged them in nondescript boxes buried under 3 tons of other shit. Print out the law
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00000926---A000-.html
and secure a copy on both the inside and the outside of the boxes (facing down or back, out of casual view)

If you have a gun safe, pack the guns into there and pad them with foam or something, then lock it and fail to remember the combination under duress.

Lock the vehicle compartment with a high-security padlock, preferably the kind that's used for locking vending machines and CANNOT be cut off short of using a cutting torch.
http://www.americanlock.com/logo.htm  (2nd from left in front row)
If they're going into the trunk, chain it shut from the inside so that you can only open it enough to reach the padlock on the chain.  Block any access from fold-down seats in the passenger guest compartment.  You have a reasonable expectation of privacy.

Do not give consent to search under ANY circumstances, have an attorney on speed-dial, and travel with others.  Scream bloody murder about the 4th amendment and getting a warrant.

Don't have any "gun stuff" in view at all.  No brass, bullets, magazines of either kind, bumper stickers, hats, t-shirts, anything.

If at all possible, stay of the shit states, and gas up before entering, so you don't have to stop or spend money in them.

[Insurgent]

We Minnesotans were sweating bullets (pun intended) for the whole duration of our fleeing from Minnesota to New Hampshire! We travelled by night, avoiding the weigh stations and such 

[Lex]

The only way one's car will be searched is if they consent or are arrested (or some other reasons your car would be seized). 

By the same token everything is legal... as long as you don't get caught.

[Puke]

Wow, this talk sure makes me mad.

"...shall not be infringed."