I hate to continue this but everyone is all keyed up about hand guns. Look under the DNR regulations for long guns. That would likely be where it would be covered.
It is my belief that when transporting either hand guns or long guns from one state to another, the rules are the same for either. Cased, unloaded, out of reach, etc. Hold your breath until out of NY then I think mostly friendly until Florida and freedom. (If that is you want to be protected by the special federal statute that allows transport.)
Itâs just a little different if you have a carry permit and a hand gun and if the state recognizes permits from other states, but why push it. South Dakota doesnât require a permit but Minnesota does. So I could go to from Minnesota to SD with no problem if the wife would let me have one.
Now that I think about it, I always had a shotgun in the trunk for hunting going from MN to SD for school, for hunting, and later to the cabin. Never ever gave it a second thought. I had planned on doing some target practice with the others rifles too in SD. Its just normal out there. But safety is the issue so unloaded and in a case. That is also to prevent or restrict road hunting. So we used to keep the case open so you could stop and quick pull the gun out and put a shell in if you saw a bird. Sheesh wish folks would loosen up. At the restaurant I worked at in high school, the owner had a trap range in the back so he could practice between rush hours. This is normal stuff.
In the few restrictive states, you might as well just disassemble the thing to its basic components before you enter the state and have about 10 different locked cases to hold all the different parts. Would be very difficult to prosecute for gun trafficking when all the parts are scattered in various boxes inside the trunk/cargo area if the police pulled you over and tried to trump up some charges while you were pulled over.
More common here than one might think. I carry and yes itâs always loaded. Per the old saying, better to have and not need than to need and not have.
Some years ago I called the local PD, state patrol, and county sheriff wanting to know what OK laws were pertaining to firearms on a motorcycle. I never heard so much contradictory nonsense in all of my life. None of the 3 agreed.
One of them said you have to carry the gun on one end of the bike and the shells on the opposite end.
Many people carry handguns in vehicles. I never found a long gun in a customerâs car, people in the city donât carry long guns year around, impractical for self-defense. Do you keep a shot gun in your Pontiac?
No. No reason anymore. I did put it in when I suspected a rabid coon at the cemetery that was following me. I ended up going through Menards lumber yard not thinking anything of it, but the kid mentioned it when checking out and opened my trunk. I suppose they would prefer you not do that. The coon ended up dead in the road anyway. Must have wandered out there like it was drunk and got run over.
Just to complicate matters my lever action 22 rifle is now illegal some places due to the number of rounds it holds. Will not be putting that in my car.
If cops knew the laws well, they would be lawyers. Pays better.
I remember awhile ago I was working on a neighborâs SUV. Thing wouldnât start. âKeyâs in the center console,â he said. So I opened it and found a handgun just sitting there. No protection. Car had been unlocked when I got there too. Brilliant.
Several years later some other dope left his gun in the car and a bunch of high school kids who were roaming the neighborhoods stealing stuff out of unlocked cars found it. Couple of days later we heard a bunch of gunshots coming from the woods near my house. I figure the kids were playing with their new toy. Strikes me as an incredibly stupid thing to do, leaving a gun lying around in an unlocked car. Probably stupid enough that it should be evidence that you canât handle the responsibility of gun ownership. Or maybe even car ownership.
A reddit site that gets posts from a lot of mechanics shows handguns left in cars in for service all the time just like @Nevada_545âs picture. Handguns, and drugs and drug paraphernalia, and cash⊠as well as cars whose insides look like toxic waste dumpstersâŠ
At work we canât have firearms or ammunition in the car. If you are caught, you are fired, no exceptions. Seem severe? My last employer is the largest manufacturer of dumb munitions in the US. They made it clear that no one was allowed to carry guns or ammunition in their vehicles. We could buy ammo at the buddy price and pick it up at the shipping and receiving office, but had to leave company grounds immediately or face job loss.
And, our rate of violent crime is one of the lowest in the US.
In fact, 45 states have violent crime rates higher than that of NJ, and many of them are far higher.
Those rates are âper 100k populationâ. Doesnât mean X state has less violent crime than Y state. I understand why they do it that way (per 100k), but it kind of makes rural states with low populations and one or two crime ridden metro areas look worse than they are and heavily populated states possibly look better than they are. Probably why Alaska is always at the top of the list. Would be interesting to see a list of total number of violent crimes per state without the âper 100k populationâ caveat.
Yeah good point. So just as a comparison of totals:
(not exact. Just rounded from 2020 population figures)
New Jersey 17,940
DC 6,785
South Dakota 4,438
Minnesota 15,789 (But if you took Minneapolis and St. Paul
out of it the total would be significantly lower)
Now before any pats on the back, how many by people with legal carry permits. In Minnesota it would be about 2.
