Yes: but in this specific case, on every stretch of my 7 hour journey EXCEPT the five minutes in Maryland I am legally permitted to carry a loaded weapon on my person. Not “unloaded, locked up, and inaccessible to me”. That’s the part that I find absolute garbage.
“Yes: but in this specific case, on every stretch of my 7 hour journey EXCEPT the five minutes in Maryland I am legally permitted to carry a loaded weapon on my person. Not “unloaded, locked up, and inaccessible to me”. That’s the part that I find absolute garbage.”
That’s the flaw in the Interstate Transportation of Firearms act. At the very least legal permit holders from other state’s should be protected even if their weapons are not stored. And I’ll even take it a step further to suggest that the right to keep and bear arms extends outside the home in general which should take precedence over any firearm laws to begin with. The problem of course is that such a case hasn’t yet worked it’s way through the SCOTUS although there are a few pending. Unfortunately in the mean time States like NJ feel they’re free to violate gun owners rights with their own constitutional interpretation that the gun laws they pass are constitutional. And let’s hope we see the NRA dig into it’s deep pockets and start to help people like this with legal assistance.