Need the federal law for transporting a firearm through states.

**ironcowboy** · March 5th, 2011, 03:58 PM

Can someone point me to an online copy of the federal law that says your allowed to transport a pistol from one state that its legal in, to another state where its legal, through whatever state you want as long as its unloaded and locked up? Need this for a friend of mine, she didn't believe me.

Thanks!

**DaveyC** · March 5th, 2011, 04:02 PM

Originally Posted by ironcowboy

Can someone point me to an online copy of the federal law that says your allowed to transport a pistol from one state that its legal in, to another state where its legal, through whatever state you want as long as its unloaded and locked up? Need this for a friend of mine, she didn't believe me.

Thanks!

Firearms owners protection act of 1986. Also because of this, we can't own new machine guns...

**MWAG** · March 5th, 2011, 04:04 PM

§ 926A. Interstate transportation of firearms

Notwithstanding any other provision of any law or any rule or regulation of a State or any political subdivision thereof, any person who is not otherwise prohibited by this chapter from transporting, shipping, or receiving a firearm shall be entitled to transport a firearm for any lawful purpose from any place where he may lawfully possess and carry such firearm to any other place where he may lawfully possess and carry such firearm if, during such transportation the firearm is unloaded, and neither the firearm nor any ammunition being transported is readily accessible or is directly accessible from the passenger compartment of such transporting vehicle: Provided, That in the case of a vehicle without a compartment separate from the driver’s compartment the firearm or ammunition shall be contained in a locked container other than the glove compartment or console.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18...6---A000-.html