FYI
18 USC § 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.
I already quoted that law. Notice the part I bolded in your quote, this does not cover a firearm in your luggage. It is specific to a vehicle and poorly worded.
ETA .. Visualize what I said above. You're at the airport. Your luggage comes down the conveyor. You grab you luggage with a handgun inside. You are in a location that requires a concealed permit and you don't have one. You walk outside (maybe the location forbids airport carry.) You are on the sidewalk and remove your firearm to OC. You are arrested for having had a concealed weapon. Maybe you don't remove your weapon from your luggage but a TSA agent tips off an overbearing cop who's itching for an easy arrest on a technicality.
Why do I have to spell everything out in such detail?
ETA2 This is totally hypothetical. Cops don't act like that in places I travel with a gun, In the places they do where I travel, (like NJ) I don't bring my firearm.
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