I am about to drive to Arizona in less than 24 hours. I will be traveling through Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico and obviously Arizona, at one point coming
very close to the US/Mexico border near Juarez (this is the area that scares me the most). I don't have a CCW, but I do not want to travel without my gun. What is my best course of action?
Obviously if I get pulled over I'm supposed to notify the officer right away of the gun, its location, et cetera - correct? But what am I looking at legally for traveling between these states with a loaded weapon? Am I supposed to keep the magazine out of it? In a separate area? Locked in my glove box? I'm not cool with the idea of Rapist McRaperpants trying to crash through my window while I sit at a rest stop trying to recover sanity during the non-stop drive there. It's going so close to Juarez that really sketches me out - so if there are any officers close to that area, any information would be beneficial to me. I don't plan on getting off of 10, but the car does need gas.
According to this:
Code of Federal Regulations
Title 18 - Part I - Chapter 44 - § 926a
§ 926A. Interstate transportation of firearms
Release date: 2005-08-03Notwithstanding 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.
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00000926---A000-.html I'm left under the impression that the glove box is NOT where the magazine which is out of the gun is to be stored - but on the inside of a Camaro, there aren't any other places to PUT the magazine. The trunk isn't really a trunk, other F-Body owners can attest, it's more of a glorified "back area".The rest of the ammunition is in its proper box and will be actually packed with some other belongings, because obviously I can't do much with a box, but it's the actual magazine itself that's giving me pause. Sorry if my question seems redundant or convoluted. I'm prepping for a literal twenty-four hour drive and it's snowing in Florida. Hell has officially frozen over.
Other notes: I can't carry the gun on my person, and don't intend to try and conceal it in any fashion. It's a Jericho 941, not precisely small or compact (clearly not the largest either, bu certainly not tiny), and I'm a small girl, so the act of actually concealing it is ridiculous. If there's a way for me to keep it under the passenger seat or in my travel bag, that's dandy. I don't NEED or WANT to have it shoved down the back of my pants.
