I am in Florida and I discovered something by accident. Florida shares its CCW information with other states. When your license gets run, the fact that you have a CCW pops up. Your license probably gets run a lot more than you think as it is done automatically by lasers and you aren’t even aware it has happened. I have read that other states are using the CCW information as probable cause to pull you over to see if you have a gun. Guns in the car are illegal in many states.
You didn’t say how you were traveling, but the last time I had to transit several states, I rented a car as there is no way for the police to know if I have a CCW if you are in a rented vehicle.
If you have a gun in MA, keep it out of sight. You don’t have to declare unless the cop asks. Don’t leave it in the glove box. It should be either locked in the trunk or “under your direct control” if you are transiting. Unless you are speeding, or driving a shit box, your chances of getting stopped are slight.
Really, 90% of the advice you are getting is from people who don’t live here. The weather is great. The natives are peaceful. Unless you are buying crack it’s safe. Pot is legal. Guns—outside of Boston, are unseen but common.
Don’t go to Cambridge or inside of 495 and life is pretty good, fairly rural.
There are liberals—but they aren’t in you face unless you want to “get into it.” We get along fine.
Unless they run the tag and determine which rental company and who rented the car.
“Florida shares its CCW information with other states.“
That is really a bad thing. People with a permit are NOT the ones committing crimes.
Could be but I have been driving with impunity with expired tabs ever since the covid thing and completely ignored by law enforcement.