Transporting w/o CCW

[Skuggi]

Ok, I'm still awaiting my permit, but I was wondering on the laws for transporting a handgun. For now when I have transported it to my buddies who was looking at it to see what sights I could get for it, I had it in its case in my laptop bag, with no magazine in it, in my trunk. I figured that would work, also carried my recipt with me showing I had just bought it the other day just in case I got stopped and harrassed for anything. (I've had my entire vehicle searched, at a sobriety check point before, and I wasnt even drinking I was coming home from work...). I dont want to give anyone a reason to take my weapon and bring charges on me so I'd like to do this right, but I've found no laws on the web about it.

I know to take my shotgun out, it has to be unloaded, in the trunk, and I keep the ammo up in the back seat. Is it similar with a handgun?

[D-FENS]

When transporting a firearm, without a LTCF, you must have the gun unloaded and in a separate container from the ammo.

There are a lot of restrictions on where and how you can transport it.

Check this thread for more info

http://www.pafoa.org/forum/pennsylva...earms-car.html

I'd suggest bumping the thread above to keep info and questions consolidated.

[LorDiego01]

(I've had my entire vehicle searched, at a sobriety check point before, and I wasnt even drinking I was coming home from work...).

Next time don't consent to the search. But be polite about it.

[Siobhra]

Never consent even when you know you are clean. If they know you let them sometimes then when you don't they suspect you even more.

Also fight everything. If I get caught on tape running a red light I still go to court. And I appeal to the county level.