California Firearm Compliance

I have found THIS SITE helpful in my initial answering of the state-by-state status. If I read it correctly, it seems that California honors Texas.

ON EDIT: It has been a while since I visited that site. Texas honors California, not the other way.

Believe it best that you contact California officials directly rather than depend on advice from forum users; However an option would be LEO people who respond to your post or an organization such as NRA.

Well any hand gun with a magazine larger than 10 rounds is not allowed.

In CA transportation of a handgun must be done with the gun unloaded in a locked container, your glove box does not count. Long guns must be in a case designed to carry firearms, but not required to lock them, and must be unloaded during transportation. No magazines over 10 rounds, to possess is a felony. Once you are parked the firearms must not be accessible by anyone under the age of 16, but you can have them out and loaded.

No SBR's, full auto or suppressors.

CA does consider your RV your home and we do have a castle law with no duty to retreat.

Now the real question is, what county are going to be in? The coastal counties can be very unfriendly towards firearms vs the central counties being, for the most part, rather libertarian towards them.

Do not carry without a CCW issued by a county sheriff, and really, your not going to be able to get one.

You can try contacting the DOJ but they are notorious for being unresponsive and unwilling to actually answer any questions when you do get ahold of them.

Keep your ammo and guns separate, gun in a locked case and stored away from vehicle occupants accessiblity. Make sure the gun and magazines are legal in California to possess, there's special laws about which guns and magazine capacity.

If you are traveling from a location where you are legal to have the firearm to another location where you are legal to have the firearm you're allowed to travel through the state with the firearm unloaded and stored in a place not easily accessible while you're travel. A big question mark in my mind has to do with any stays in CA. It's a big state but I'm not clear on whether under federal law that governs transportation if you'd be covered if you happen to stay overnight. I read about folks that have gotten arrest in states where they were traveling through, had their trip interrupted, ending up staying overnight and got arrest for illegal possession of a firearm.

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/forumdisplay.php?f=349

The best resource I can think of is Calguns.

Most LEOs, like myself, will not tell you whether or not your CCW covers you in a specific state. That is your responsibility to look up yourself as a CCW carrier. While the members of this forum are being helpful, stating you learned this on an Internet Forum to a Peace Officer or in a court of law . . . well you can draw your own conclusion. Getting a link and researching it yourself is the proper way for all CCW carriers when traveling through states and countries other than the issuing CCW state/county.

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My best advice is DO NOT DO IT.
But if you must.. Contact the NRA. they keep all sorts of resources for folks who want to go against my advice.

NOTE: I"m not a lawyer. My advice is thus not legal advice.. It is simply the easiest way to avoid a problem.. If you don't do it. You CAN NOT get in trouble for doing it .

States which make their laws overly restrictive and do not accept rules that are considered standard norms in most other states choose to make folks unwelcome. I agree to their desires and avoid them.

In general you can find most of their non standard laws in general web searches. The magazine ban and some others are fairly recent.

Also organizations like USCCA offer reciprocity maps concerning states laws.
The safest thing is not to go there. They cant arrest you if you dont go there.