I traveled from my home in Virginia to my parents’ home in Pennsylvania recently. My route took me through Maryland for about two miles - less than five minutes’ time spent in the state. My carry permit is honored in PA and WVa, but not Maryland.
To comply with the law I must stop somewhere in WVA (there’s nowhere near the border that’s convenient to stop), store the gun in a Maryland approved fashion, then later when I reach PA (and again there’s nowhere convenient within half an hour and “convenient” here means “gas station parking lot where anyone can see”) re-arm. Or make the entire trip with my gun locked away. Which kind of defeats the point of having it.
It’s absolutely ludicrous.
Yes, I wholeheartedly agree. I’ve had a carry license for near 20 years and it is always in my mind about where I’m going with it...
This pretty much sums it up:
“18 U.S. Code § 926A - Interstate transportation of firearms”
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/926A
I regularly dismissed cases filed against individuals like you in that MD jurisdiction who would forget they had their firearm and get caught. We had a PIA in the district court division of our office and all the defense counsel knew to prey a jury trial so that I could get the case and get rid of it. I never understood the logic of creating a criminal record for someone who had no criminal record and was committing no crime in their home state. But then I have a good grasp of the constitutional issues and the other prosecutor does not.