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traveling with guns

briguybriguy Member Posts: 459 ✭✭✭
edited March 2009 in Ask the Experts
I live in montana and I am going to be traveling to Colorado in a couple months. I will be going through Wyoming and I will be staying in Denver for a few nights. Being a nonresident of Colorado am I allowed to have a rifle in my vehicle and in my motel room? Does it have to be in a case? Or can a rifle be concealed without a concealed weapons permit? Keep in mind it will be a rifle not a handgun.
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  • Spider7115Spider7115 Member Posts: 29,704 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You didn't need to post this four times.
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  • briguybriguy Member Posts: 459 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ya i know, i was having computer troubles. I think i got em fixed if not you are gonna hear me scream real loud!!!
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  • Spider7115Spider7115 Member Posts: 29,704 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That's better! [:)] You can carry an unloaded rifle locked in your trunk. If it was mine, I'd take in my room but very discreetly so people don't think you're the "Colorado Sniper" or something!
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  • nmyersnmyers Member Posts: 16,892 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Spider's right. In some parts of the US, a gun will rust overnight in a car trunk.

    If it were me, I'd keep it in one of those plastic gun cases with a padlock on it; it won't stop a thief, but accidental exposure to an LEO won't get you arrested as your peaceful intent will be obvious.

    Neal
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  • iwannausernameiwannausername Member Posts: 7,131
    edited November -1
    Someone got in a heap of trouble over a cased rifle in a Denver hotel during the Democratic convention...

    You can ship the gun to yourself c/o wherever you will end up at, as long as you are the one to open the package...
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  • briguybriguy Member Posts: 459 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well that would almost work but my whole point of having a rifle with me is because by the time I leave my hometown and reach the wyoming border I will go through my deer hunting grounds along with severl miles of ranches where I have permisoin to hunt year round along with BLM land. I want to be able to shoot coyotes between here and wyoming on that land. As for the rest of my trip I simply want it along for protection. As for taking it into my motel room I have had a gun rust before leaving it in my trunk and one gun rusting is one too many. Besides all my suitcases would go in because I would worry about theft naturally I would want to take out everything of value.
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  • texas gunplumbertexas gunplumber Member Posts: 26 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I carry my long guns in a golf bag...no one notices when I take them into motel.
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  • AmbroseAmbrose Member Posts: 3,225 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    texas; What a great idea!!
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  • slumlord44slumlord44 Member Posts: 3,702 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Federal law says cased, unloaded, in an area where it and ammo are not accessable by the driver. Trunk will do. State and local laws may be tougher. Never heard the outcome of the guy in Colorado at the convention. Federal law says ok. I would never leave a gun or lugage in a car at a motel. I would be as descrete as possible hauling it in and out of the motel.
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