Anyone have any recent experience with flying into DCA relating to transporting a handgun (specifically a revolver)? I'll be flying there for a few days for work and then onto ohio. I typically fly with a carry piece checked properly, but DC has me a little freaked out. I don't want to be checking my luggage and my carry at DCA when I'm departing and get pinched for some socialist commie absurd law.
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Laws Related To Flying to DC With a Handgun
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I think you would be in violation as soon as you tried to leave the terminal. Or even took possession if it inside of DC.
Seems like I read that somewhere recently.
Seems like I read that somewhere recently.
We don't have reciprocity with Ohio either. Unless you have a non-resident permit from UT, AZ or FL or you're LEO.
True, my sitster lives in Ohio and I visit a bunch. Thinking of getting a Florida one just for that reason.
Also my uncle was higher up NSA up there and he said other than the pistol they issued him, he was never allowed to buy one personally all he had were .22 rifles.
I'm driving to DC. So I'm a little curious as well. I don't think you have anything to worry about though as long as you are transporting the gun in a legal matter.
From NRA: http://www.nraila.org/gun-laws/articles/2010/guide-to-the-interstate-transportation.aspx
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Use extreme caution when traveling through Washington, DC with a firearm. The certificate requirement for possession of firearms and ammunition does not apply to nonresidents who are “participating in any lawful recreational firearm-related activity within the District, or on [their] way to or from such activity in another jurisdiction.” To qualify for this exception, a person must, upon demand of a law enforcement officer, “exhibit proof that he is on his way to or from such activity” and that the person’s possession of the firearm is lawful in the person’s place of residence. The person must also be transporting the firearm from a place where the person may lawfully possess and carry it to another place where the person may lawfully possess and carry it, the firearm must be unloaded, and neither the firearm nor any ammunition may be readily or directly accessible from the automobile’s passenger compartment, or if the vehicle does not have a separate trunk, the firearm or ammunition must be kept in a locked container.
From NRA: http://www.nraila.org/gun-laws/articles/2010/guide-to-the-interstate-transportation.aspx
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Use extreme caution when traveling through Washington, DC with a firearm. The certificate requirement for possession of firearms and ammunition does not apply to nonresidents who are “participating in any lawful recreational firearm-related activity within the District, or on [their] way to or from such activity in another jurisdiction.” To qualify for this exception, a person must, upon demand of a law enforcement officer, “exhibit proof that he is on his way to or from such activity” and that the person’s possession of the firearm is lawful in the person’s place of residence. The person must also be transporting the firearm from a place where the person may lawfully possess and carry it to another place where the person may lawfully possess and carry it, the firearm must be unloaded, and neither the firearm nor any ammunition may be readily or directly accessible from the automobile’s passenger compartment, or if the vehicle does not have a separate trunk, the firearm or ammunition must be kept in a locked container.
There was a story a while back about a guy in the district being charged with a felony for spent brass. SCOTUS shot down blanket bans but the laws are in flux right now. Concealed carry was legal for 24 hours after that decision but the courts granted time for the district to craft "constitutional" gun laws.
**** DC
I have both a GWL and a FL CCW bro... I'm covered in 34 out of 50 states: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
*Although like I always say, "dead men don't go to court".
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