The firearms were unloaded, in cases, locked in the trunk. Most jurisdictions consider that "secured" for transport purposes.
Would stopping for fuel, to urinate, to eat, have constituted "local business"? If so, then there is virtually no way to travel with Arms on the upper East Coast.
If the rules do not permit compliance, then what? How far do we retreat?
What happened to the RKBA and "...shall not be infringed."?
This goes beyond infringement to complete denial.
Yup. And you could be arrested. Living in Virginia, it's a pain in the posterior living next to DC and Maryland.
Here's irony; of the three, guess which has the least gun related crime?