Originally Posted by
mmood
I've flown (declared and checked) with firearms before, and I'm not too worried about the process, just curious about how this might play out in one of these scenarios.
While its perfectly fine to declare then check firearms and ammunition on a flight, you are still bound by local law when arriving final destination. Can this also be affected by a transit point, as many times the airport in question is not your final destination? Are you bound by local laws of the transit airport, or your final destination by rental car?
I've found the following on wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_law...ates_(by_state)
There is a federal law that should trump local law if traveling to a final destination where it is legal for you to have the firearm.
http://uscode.house.gov/uscode-cgi/f...20%20%20%20%20
Do you have any experience with traveling through an airport in cities/states with firearm restrictions? For example, say I was checking a handgun in NYC-JFK because my travel originated in a legal location (Say NH) and ends in a legal location (Say TX) as an example? Are there any major issues checking a handgun at JFK in this case? Has anyone ever done it?
Check into the Gun Owners Protection Act that Reagan signed into law in 1986. If I remember correctly, you are absolved of all the local gun laws while traveling through a state with restrictive laws as long as the intent was to continue to pass through without stopping. A layover or change in planes in JFK or LGA I think would qualify. Since they are checked luggage, its not like you can have access to them since they stay in a secured area while being transshipped from air carrier to another.