Md Hotel, Can I Have My Gun

[mike_yorkPA]

ok well im going to Crusin Week in Ocean City MD for the weekend because im addicted to muscle cars! I know our LTCF isnt good for Md, but if I wanted to have it in the hotel room with me would that be ok?

[God's Country]

It's my understanding that MD only allows travel through their state with out of state firearms....so my guess would be negative.

[thefirstndsecond]

What about non residents hunting in Maryland and staying at a hotel?

[fingers80002]

What about non residents hunting in Maryland and staying at a hotel?

Does not apply to long guns......

[Kb! Bob]

Does not apply to long guns......

Easy enough, and more effective...... take the shotgun!!!

[mike_yorkPA]

Easy enough, and more effective...... take the shotgun!!!

mossy 500 with some buck it is then

[God's Country]

What about non residents hunting in Maryland and staying at a hotel?

Sorry I was referring to the OP's apparent situation where some type of shooting sport wouldn’t be relevant.

[tl_3237]

MD Criminal Code
§ 4-203. Wearing, carrying, or transporting handgun.


(a) Prohibited.-
(1) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a person may not:
(i) wear, carry, or transport a handgun, whether concealed or open, on or about the person;
(ii) wear, carry, or knowingly transport a handgun, whether concealed or open, in a vehicle traveling on a road or parking lot generally used by the public, highway, waterway, or airway of the State;
(iii) violate item (i) or (ii) of this paragraph while on public school property in the State; or
(iv) violate item (i) or (ii) of this paragraph with the deliberate purpose of injuring or killing another person.
(2) There is a rebuttable presumption that a person who transports a handgun under paragraph (1)(ii) of this subsection transports the handgun knowingly.

(b) Exceptions.- This section does not prohibit:

(1) the wearing, carrying, or transporting of a handgun by a person who is on active assignment engaged in law enforcement, is authorized at the time and under the circumstances to wear, carry, or transport the handgun as part of the person's official equipment, and is:
(i) a law enforcement official of the United States, the State, or a county or city of the State;
(ii) a member of the armed forces of the United States or of the National Guard on duty or traveling to or from duty;
(iii) a law enforcement official of another state or subdivision of another state temporarily in this State on official business;
(iv) a correctional officer or warden of a correctional facility in the State;
(v) a sheriff or full-time assistant or deputy sheriff of the State; or
(vi) a temporary or part-time sheriff's deputy;
(2) the wearing, carrying, or transporting of a handgun by a person to whom a permit to wear, carry, or transport the handgun has been issued under Title 5, Subtitle 3 of the Public Safety Article;
(3) the carrying of a handgun on the person or in a vehicle while the person is transporting the handgun to or from the place of legal purchase or sale, or to or from a bona fide repair shop, or between bona fide residences of the person, or between the bona fide residence and place of business of the person, if the business is operated and owned substantially by the person if each handgun is unloaded and carried in an enclosed case or an enclosed holster;
(4) the wearing, carrying, or transporting by a person of a handgun used in connection with an organized military activity, a target shoot, formal or informal target practice, sport shooting event, hunting, a Department of Natural Resources-sponsored firearms and hunter safety class, trapping, or a dog obedience training class or show, while the person is engaged in, on the way to, or returning from that activity if each handgun is unloaded and carried in an enclosed case or an enclosed holster;
(5) the moving by a bona fide gun collector of part or all of the collector's gun collection from place to place for public or private exhibition if each handgun is unloaded and carried in an enclosed case or an enclosed holster;
(6) the wearing, carrying, or transporting of a handgun by a person on real estate that the person owns or leases or where the person resides or within the confines of a business establishment that the person owns or leases;
(7) the wearing, carrying, or transporting of a handgun by a supervisory employee:
(i) in the course of employment;
(ii) within the confines of the business establishment in which the supervisory employee is employed; and
(iii) when so authorized by the owner or manager of the business establishment; or
(8) the carrying or transporting of a signal pistol or other visual distress signal approved by the United States Coast Guard in a vessel on the waterways of the State or, if the signal pistol or other visual distress signal is unloaded and carried in an enclosed case, in a vehicle.

Don't think you are qualified for transport pursuant to state law.

[Huggy]

ok well im going to Crusin Week in Ocean City MD for the weekend because im addicted to muscle cars! I know our LTCF isnt good for Md, but if I wanted to have it in the hotel room with me would that be ok?

Where are you staying? I've been down the past few years, and we're always in the Sahara tower building. It's at 19th and ocean, I think.
It is a pretty neutering experience, but try not to let it keep you from enjoying the weekend.

[cgminwestpa]

Many years ago my wife and I along with some friends were camping in the Deep Creek/Oakland area at Garret State Forest. The last night of our stay, we unintentionally invited some unwanted guests - Momma Bear and her two cubs. We calmly vacated the area and retreated to our vehicles.

They pretty much destroyed our coolers. I did have a firearm with me, I would rather go to jail alive for protecting my wife & my myself & friends than be another homicide statistic. Not that I expected trouble, you just never know.

The next morning after several hours of uncomfortable sleeping in our cars, the MD DNR shows up. We were back down by the campsite and had my firearm sitting next to me on the picnic table. After the rangers left, it dawned on me me how lucky I really was. The rangers either didn't notice (hard to believe since I had a SW40F), noticed and didn't care, or just plain old cool about it.

At the time of the incident, one of the rangers (not the one doing the investigation) was my former CO in the MDNG.

This could have been a terrible ending to an adventurous trip.