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Old Dec 30, 2007 | 7:02 am
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Originally Posted by Lurker1999
When was this? My understanding of the Firearm Owners Protection Act is that it grants protections for legal gun owners travelling through jurisdictions where the gun laws are different/stricter than those of their resident state.
FOPA '86 *IS* supposed to protect firearms owners from such infringements - but historically, NY and NJ haven't let that stop them from throwing the traveller in jail for the night and then "finding out" that they weren't really permitted to do so. It's harassment of travelling firearms owners, pure and simple, for the "crime" of daring to travel with evilnastybad firearms. So far, to my knowledge, they (the relevant "authorities") have not been legally held accountable.
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