Traveling through MD from PA

stephthebakerfl · May 18, 2020

I am a resident of Florida visiting family in PA. I am being gifted a USMI M-1 carbine that I plan to take back to Florida with me but part of my trip would normally go through MD. Is the M-1 carbine legal in MD. I will travel with no magazines due to capacity issues. It has a fixed wooden stock and a flash suppressor that I think are ok under MD law but better safe than sorry.
Thank you for any info you might be able to provide.
Steph

Pinecone · May 18, 2020

M-1 Carbine is good to go. Even to stop and shoot in MD. You could even buy one in MD.

Mags are OK. You may possess them in MD, you just cannot buy, sell, transfer, or make in MD.

mac1_131 · May 18, 2020

Legal even with mags. Mags are just a sales ban, not possession.

stephthebakerfl · May 18, 2020

Thank you. It is such a beautiful rifle in awesome condition, Inland Marine that I hate to leave it in PA or take the long way home to avoid MD

stephthebakerfl · May 18, 2020

Thank you. It is such a beautiful rifle in awesome condition, Inland Marine that I hate to leave it in PA or take the long way home to avoid MD

gorgeman · May 18, 2020

stay out of dc

dblas · May 18, 2020

stephthebakerfl said:
I am a resident of Florida visiting family in PA. I am being gifted a USMI M-1 carbine that I plan to take back to Florida with me but part of my trip would normally go through MD. Is the M-1 carbine legal in MD. I will travel with no magazines due to capacity issues. It has a fixed wooden stock and a flash suppressor that I think are ok under MD law but better safe than sorry.
Thank you for any info you might be able to provide.
Steph

Travelling through MD, you are covered under federal law, via FOPA. There are states (NJ) that seem to not recognize FOPA, but Maryland is not one of them.

RoadDawg · May 19, 2020

dblas said:
Travelling through MD, you are covered under federal law, via FOPA. There are states (NJ) that seem to not recognize FOPA, but Maryland is not one of them.

THIS^^^^^

FOPA allows transport of firearms THROUGH any state.
Even if banned by that state law.

SO LONG AS
• the transporting person is not prohibited from possessing firearms.
• the end destination is not within said state.
• all laws regarding secure transport of said firearms within that state are followed while traveling through said state.

So... packing up in Pennsylvania - traveling through Maryland - in-route to Florida... shouldn’t be a problem.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_Owners_Protection_Act

One of the law's provisions (codified in section 926A of title 18 of the U.S. Code) was that persons traveling from one place to another have a defense for any state firearms offense in a state that has strict gun control laws if the traveler is just passing through (short stops for food and gasoline), provided that the individual is not otherwise prohibited from possession of a firearm, the firearms and ammunition are not readily accessible, that the firearms are unloaded and, in the case of a vehicle without a compartment separate from the driver's compartment, the firearms are located in a locked container other than the glove compartment or console.

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