Travel with guns

Jerrybo66 wrote:
...If a RVer travels across this Country with a firearm in their coach or tow vehicle they will be breaking the law in a lot, if not most States. Even if one tries to observe the confusing State laws, there's always the Mickey Mouse City laws to deal with. There is absolutely NO WAY a person can travel State wide with a firearm legally, no matter how hard he tries...

The right to transport a legally owned firearm is protected by Federal Law which supercedes state and local laws.

"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."

Have there been some folks hasseled by unknowing or deliberately agressive state and local authorities, Yes. Even New York's very strict laws specifically refer to the federal law. Meeting the requirements of the federal law may require more effort by those travelling in motorhome than those transporting firearms in a towable which is clearly not accessable from the passenger compartment of the tow vehicle. One has to recognize that there is a very real legal distinction between transportation and carrying of a firearm.