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Firearm transporting question

uni82uni82 Member Posts: 416 ✭✭
edited April 2011 in Ask the Experts
I live in wisconsin.

my dad lives in pennsylvania.

If he were to bring rifles (long guns) here or visa versa and they were locked in an enclosed cased without the ammo and the action is disabled (bolts taken out of the receivers) is it ok? Or would I have to spend a lot of money to get them there. I would bring him a 12 gauge single shot, muzzeloader, and a 760 pump.

Traveling pa,ny,ohio,ind,il,wi

Thanks!

-JD
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  • ruger41ruger41 Member Posts: 14,665 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    As long as they aren't loaded and you're transporting them in their cases your are ok-there are generally no restrictions through those states with unloaded long guns--with two possible places I wouldn't take any firearms into-New York City and Illinois have their own goofy laws regarding guns so be wary if you are going to those cities.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_the_United_States_(by_state)#New_York

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_Owners_Protection_Act#.22Safe_Passage.22_provision
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  • mark christianmark christian Member Posts: 24,443 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am a bit curious how you can be traveling from Wisconsin to Pennsylvania (or reversed) and end up driving through New York State along the way.
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  • chumchumchumchum Member Posts: 847 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    GPS didn't work
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  • WinMikeWinMike Member Posts: 144 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    and, you could go through Yupper-land and miss Illinois.....
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  • nmyersnmyers Member Posts: 16,892 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    "Bring him"? Are planning to transfer ownership to him? If so, you must deliver the firearms to an FFL in your father's state, so that the FFL can transfer ownership to him in accordance with federal, state, & local law. There is no exception in the law for "close relatives".

    However, either of you may transport your own guns to another state for your use, or for you to loan then to another.

    Keep in mind, guns left in a car in many parts of the US will rust overnight, so you should pack them appropriately or bring them into your accommodations.

    Neal
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  • uni82uni82 Member Posts: 416 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    going from northern pennsylvania (hallstead pa) and head on route 17w/86w from binghamton through ny state. then back into pa through erie, then ohio. so leaving pa its, pa,ny,pa,oh,in,il,wi in that order. once you get on route 80, just turn right at chicago and your almost there. and i drive it over night, i dont like stopping just straight through. my father does the same, straight shot.

    Thanks for your replies guys, as always you are are very helpful.

    -JD
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  • MossbergboogieMossbergboogie Member Posts: 12,211
    edited November -1
    Cased and unloaded and I don't think you will have any problems. IL doesn't have goofy firearms transportation laws. Other than nothing loaded or uncased capable of being fired.
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  • RCrosbyRCrosby Member Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Mass. isn't one of your states, but the following might be instructive. I had to transport a number of handguns and rifles from Conn. to Maine several years back. I asked the chief of police in Milford, Mass. how I should do this this. His advice: Legally I'd have to obtain a transport permit from every municipality through which I would travel. "Break em down, separate ammo from guns, lock them in the trunk and don't open that trunk until you reach Maine."
    I wonder if he'd have stood by that had I gotten into trouble along the way??
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  • MobuckMobuck Member Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Cased, unloaded, disabled? That all sounds pretty goofus to a Missourian. Backwindow gun rack, loaded, cocked and locked is the way it's done here in the land of the FREE.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Mobuck
    Cased, unloaded, disabled? That all sounds pretty goofus to a Missourian. Backwindow gun rack, loaded, cocked and locked is the way it's done here in the land of the FREE.


    Intrastate, but not interstate.
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  • uni82uni82 Member Posts: 416 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    hahaha mobuck!

    Thanks guys!

    -JD
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