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Transporting Firearms while moving back to PA

Joker3092

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Ok so i am moving back up to Pa from Va next weekend. I Own a Glock 22 .40 cal pistol and a 12 gauge shotgun. i know in PA you have to have a LTCF (which i do not have) to transport handguns in your Vehicle. Do you guys have any suggestions on legal ways which i could go about moving my guns up to PA???
 

imperialism2024

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Well, there's an exception for moving from one place of abode to another:

§ 6106. Firearms not to be carried without a license.
(a) Offense defined.--Any person who carries a firearm in any vehicle or any person who carries a firearm concealed on or about his person, except in his place of abode or fixed place of business, without a valid and lawfully issued license under this chapter commits a felony of the third degree.
(b) Exceptions.--The provisions of subsection (a) shall not apply to:
(8) Any person while carrying a firearm unloaded and in a secure wrapper from the place of purchase to his home or place of business, or to a place of repair or back to his home or place of business, or in moving from one place of abode or business to another or from his home to a vacation or recreational home or dwelling or back, or to recover stolen property under section 6111.1(b)(4) (relating to Pennsylvania State Police) or to a location to which the person has been directed to surrender firearms under 23 Pa.C.S. § 6108 (relating to relief) or back upon return of the surrendered firearm.
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There's also the fact that traveling from Virginia to Pennsylvania is interstate travel, and is thus covered by the GOPA.
 

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Joker3092 wrote:
SNIP Ok so i am moving back up to Pa from Va next weekend.

Hey! UnReconstructed! Looks like another one is going home! :)

Does a carpet bag count as "securely wrapped" for the purposes of the federal Safe Passage law? :)
 

Citizen

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Joker3092 wrote:
Citizen wrote:
Joker3092 wrote:
SNIP Ok so i am moving back up to Pa from Va next weekend.

Hey! UnReconstructed! Looks like another one is going home! :)

Does a carpet bag count as "securely wrapped" for the purposes of the federal Safe Passage law? :)
what is that supposed to mean???

Playful teasing. Yankee going home, getting out of the South.

I hopethe movegoes smoothly, and wish you the best.

I'malso hoping...geeez...I just noticedyour number of posts.

WELCOME TO OCDO!

I'm also hoping you'll continue at OCDO after the move.
 

Citizen

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Statkowski wrote:
He is moving from one Commonwealth to another. Us Commonwealths have to stick together, there's only four of us.
We are stuck together! That's the whole Southern objection!! :)
 
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