Travelling with a handgun through DC...

bkraft · Feb 19, 2009

So my buddy wants me to make atrip to OnTarget with him after work on Friday. I live in MD, but I work in DC. Does anyone know the laws regarding travelling with a handgun in DC?? I suppose my other option is to stop at my parents place near Columbia on the way to work in the morning and drop the gun off there... then pick it up on the way to OnTarget afterwork.

Before the handgun ban, I wouldn't even have considered bringing it into DC. My other problem is tht I drive a Jeep Wrangler... I guess the bet place to transport would bbe with the ammo locked in the center console. Since the ignition key unlocks the console, I wouldn't be able to get to it with the vehicle running... then I could put the unloaded pistol in it's holster under the passenger seat... I guess you could argue that either of those are within reach, but realisticaly speaking.. not really.

mikec · Feb 22, 2009

Simple way, leave the gun at the parents or rent at the range.

vette97 · Feb 22, 2009

Loan it to your parents for the day for safekeeping. Even with a locked trunk, the risks of rush-hour accidents would keep me from taking it down there. If my trunk, or I am disabled from being rear-ended, I'd rather it be in a safe place than in my car. Just my opinion.

Allium · Feb 22, 2009

nah - just wear baggy pants with the crotch to the knees, a hoodie and a watch cap, some bling - maybe a clock or the like hanging from a gold painted dog chain and some biggie smalls blastin. You wont get busted but you might get a stimulus check instead.

novus collectus · Feb 22, 2009

You can pass through DC with a firearm, but you cannot travel into DC to work with a handgun unless it is registered in DC to you or to an organization you work for maybe.

Dropping it off at your parents place is an option, but MD law only al,lows the transport of firearms to certain places and events, and unless you are a collector showing off part of your collection to them, or unless you maintain a residence there and are moving from your residences, or unless they hired you out as a manager of their business at the house....etc., you cannot technically take the handgun to their house to drop off.
If you have a MD designated collectors status or a C&R, you can claim you are a collector on the way to show them a part of your collection as I understand it.
If you sometimes stay there, you might be able to say it is your other residence, but that may be sketchy.

The only conditions for the handgun when travelling by state law is that it remain unloaded and in an enclosed holster....that is all. Nothing about the ammunition oputside of the handgun or anything about within arms reach in the code.
Actuaklly, the code says you may wear or carry a handgun on the way to or from the range, so the "out of arms reach" thing is a total myth in myu book.

Montgomerry County has their own law about transport, but MD state law is explicit in their preemption of local laws, so the Mo Co law should be moot. However, if you don't want to be a test case, the Mo Co transport law is this:

57-10. Keeping guns on person or in
vehicles. It shall be unlawful for any person to
have upon his person, concealed or exposed, or
in a motor vehicle where it is readily available for
use, any gun designed to use explosive ammunition
unless:...

....(d) Hunting, target practice, etc. Such person
is engaged in lawful hunting, drill, training or
target practice on property of which he is the
owner or lessee or on property with the prior
permission of the owner or lessee thereof; or
(e) Going to or returning from hunting, target
practice, etc. Such person is engaged in
going to or from lawful hunting, drill training or
target practice, or in delivering such gun to or
carrying it from a gunsmith or repairman, or is
engaged in any other lawful transfer of possession;
provided, that such person shall be on or
traveling upon a public highway or property of
which he is the owner or lessee or on property
with the prior permission of the owner or lessee
thereof; provided further, that such gun shall not
be loaded with explosive ammunition.

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