[NEPA]

I'm a PA gun owner and I don't know of licensing. There has to be something missing from the story. Maybe he didn't have a CCW but you don't need one to carry in your vehicle although the gun has to be unloaded and I believe the ammo has to be separate from the gun (e.g., not kept in the same case)

[Bikers4Bush]

Gun was loaded and in the console next to him. The vehicle supposedly wasn't his and the gun was "locked" in the console which he claimed he didn't have a key for. The police broke the console open and found the gun.

The article is misleading. I've never read anything about them seeing a holster which prompted a search. I doubt that a search prompted by the sighting of an empty holster would even be legal. Instead, they were searching for more drugs after they found some on the guy (also a Browns player but who was subsequently cut) sitting in the passenger seat.

[DoughtyOne]

I believe that a loaded weapon in the passenger compartment is considered a concealed weapon in most states. Texas and a few others that allow hunting rifles on racks in the rear windows may be the exceptions. I'm not sure how hundguns figure into that equasion in those states.