Posted on 06/23/2017 1:19:47 PM PDT by Rusty0604
I am planning on flying to CA and then driving back to Texas with my daughter and grandchildren. I would feel much safer with a firearm on the way back, with so much desolate area and close to the border. My question is, will I be given grief when I arrive at Burbank? It's a pistol, actually purchased in CA but several years ago. Can I take my ammo? This is why I hate flying, but I do t ha e a choice. THANKS!
DO NOT bring your gun to California!!!! Even if it’s 100% legal you stand a very good chance of having it seized at the airport and then being arrested...for something.
Now don’t say I didn’t tell you so!!!
Go to the TSA website and look up the rules. It is allowable and they give guidelines on what to do.
Even though I’m just arriving?
Guns are Illegal in Mexico.
Check the airline you are traveling with for information about how you can properly ship it. California is an anti-gun state and will not honor your carry permit. While you are in California, you’ll have to keep your firearm unloaded and locked in the trunk. Check your states and the NRA website for information about reciprocity in the states you’ll be traveling through.
I think you can put your unloaded gun into your checked luggage and can include separately the ammo in the checked luggage. I would not risk it taking it on your person, even if you have a permit to carry. The airport security would probably find it and you would have problems.
But the advice by someone to check the TSA website is probably the best and most reasonable one.
I guess they could arrest me for moving out of state so they couldn’t collect taxes on my retirement.
I sea what you did there.
The drive from California to Texas is very safe. I did it twice last year with my kids.
You are on a busy interstate most of the time. We only got off the interstate in Texas.
I don’t have a carry permit. I carried the whole time I lived I CA. I only carry on trips where I might not be safe.
Then make sure you have bail money.
UNLOADED Firearm in a HARD CASE LOCKED.
Ammo in FACTORY BOX only.
Only 1 Box of Ammo.
Each in separate luggage.
Go to Ticket Counter before TSA Checkpoint Chicken$#!t and tell the Agent You want to Declare a Firearm and they will give You a Form to fill out.
They will take the Form and Luggage at the Counter and send it back for TSA to check out that it is unloaded and Ammo is in Factory Box, so have the key to the lock(s) ready for the TSA and stay at the Ticket Counter for this part.
Also have a Trigger Lock in place.
you drove Cal to Texas without getting off the interstate. Bathroom gas?
There are a couple of gotchas that might affect your decision awaiting given the destination is California: on 1 July of this year the "high-capacity" magazine law kicks in and you're not allowed a mag over 10 rounds even if it was purchased there, no Grandfathering. Possession of those is prohibited as is "importing" them into the state. Also local carry laws apply as soon as you land, which in Kali means essentially that you can't. Keep it cased and get the heck out of that state.
Contact airline and make sure your mag is for <10 rounds. Or, mail the magazine to your daughter and bring the gun. If tsa asks about no mag just say you’ll buy a mag here cause your state allows over 10.
I live in CA, and have flown with a gun into and out of many of the major airports, including SFO and LAX. I’ve followed the TSA guidelines, mainly:
gun is unloaded, in a locked and hard sided case
ammo is in a separate locked case in original packaging
declare firearm at luggage check in
put gun and ammo in checked baggage only, not carryon
Having followed those guidelines, my experience has been that picking up checked luggage with a gun inside is no different than picking up checked luggage without a gun. You go to the baggage carousel, pick up your baggage, maybe check to make sure the locked container holding your gun is still inside, and away you go.
As for checking in at the beginning of your trip ... my experience has been that having a gun at a large, busy airport can actually get you checked in a bit faster if there are long lines at baggage check. At some airports, if you have a gun, you bypass the regular baggage check to get escorted to a TSA station. At the TSA station, you demonstrate that your gun is in a hard, locked container, sign a form affirming that it’s unloaded, put the container into your checked luggage. Sometimes, all of that can take less time than waiting in the regular baggage check line. Then you go on to the same TSA “security” process you would have gone through anyway.
Eff CA and their commie politics.
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