Legality of a Minor Transporting a Firearm

Is it legal for you to posses that gun in your area?

You're going to have to check your state laws.

Quite a few states have supervision requirements on minors. Others have different age qualifications for handguns/long guns/etc.


http://www.nraila.org/GunLaws/

Looks like you are OK as long as the firearm is a rifle or shotgun.

Put your gear in the trunk and out of sight----don't tempt bizarre fate. You are probably A-OK if you are transporting this way---you MAY be OK with a handgun in this manner as well (unloaded/cased/going to range or coming home from same). But Y-O-U must ask the questions.

The responsibility to know the law is yours. Why play around; stop by your local Police Dept. and ask them how to procede lawfully---that's what they are there for.

Good luck and happy shooting!

illegal for minor to transport handguns or "assault weapon" in Virginia
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+cod+18.2-308.7


Federal law apparently prohibits minors from transporting handguns under many circumstances without some sort of particular "written permission" and locked-container requirements. So - while not legally impossible - sure seems practically impossible.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00000922----000-.html

Here in nc (i am 17 and the only big shooter) i am able to transport a rifle/shotgun as long as it is for a "lawful purpose" - my local sherrifs exact words


but for me to transport a handgun for hunting/target i must have written permision to do so from my dad so i ahve a letter in my wallet signed by my dad that i am able to carry his ruger single six for work around the farm where i work odd jobs, hunting, and for target practice


but the only thing is that i have to be 18 to use my range so istill have to have him with me for target practice unless i got to a friends

According to the NRA's Gun Laws page for MO, for rifles and shotguns you're fine. No handguns until you're 21.
"...no good at understanding legal mumbo-jumbo..." Learn your State laws pertaining to firearms and hunting. Ignorance of the law really is no excuse.

stop by your local Police Dept. and ask them how to procede lawfully---that's what they are there for.

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Um, no. Ask a lawyer, not the police.

Why? Do lawyers enforce the law? Keep it simple and assume GOOD WILL from folks unless otherwise diverted by their actions.

Sheesh---the kid wants to go shooting, not make some case. And he's (lucky for him) in MO.

Because some police officers may not know the laws themselves.

Because police arent the ones prosecuting you... its not uncommon for police to misapply what they "believe" or "want" the law to be, unintentionally through no fault of their own.