Help Needed - Traveling FL to VA

[RobXD9]

Will be traveling from Florida through Georgia, S. Carolina & North Carolina on my way to Virginia.

Have checked out handgunlaw.us - some good info there. But digging through the laws has gotten me a touch lost.

Hoping for clarification.

N.M. resident w/N.M. permit. Also have FL permit.

I basically need to know these things

1) Where does it need to be in the vehicle while we're driving? (particularly S.C.)

2) What if we stop to eat?

3) What about Virginia colleges? May I keep it locked in a case in the trunk while present on campus?

Thanks for your time.

-Rob

 

[marley]

Vcu and mcv it is against state law to carry on campus. Not sure about having them cased. You can carry at every university execpt vcu/mcv. Students can't. They can ask you to leave. But you broke no law. Can't help you with SC. Va open carry legal. Do not go to DC. Patrick

 

[Apple a Day]

South Carolina sucks to travel through. I go back and forth to Georgia. It's been recommended to me to follow the three-step rule: it should take three steps to fire the weapon. Lock the gun in one place (trunk) keep the ammunition separate (glove box). Some Virginia colleges have rules against it but they aren't really in the business of going through people's cars to find illicit items. Imagine all of the drugs and paraphinalia they'd find!

 

[wdlsguy]

South Carolina

SECTION 16-23-20. Unlawful carrying of pistol; exceptions.

It is unlawful for anyone to carry about the person any pistol, whether concealed or not, except as follows:

(9) Any person in a vehicle where the pistol is secured in a closed glove compartment, closed console, or closed trunk.

SECTION 23-31-230. Carrying concealed weapons between automobile and accommodation.

Notwithstanding any provision of law, any person may carry a concealable weapon from an automobile or other motorized conveyance to a room or other accommodation he has rented and upon which an accommodations tax has been paid.

http://www.handgunlaw.us/documents/USRVCarCarry.pdf

 

[mjrodney]

I too will be making a similar trip soon, so I called the South Carolina Highway Patrol directly, just last week.

They told me that in the glove box, center console or trunk is acceptable, loaded or unloaded.

Not on your person, no between the seats, no in a purse or other bag.

 

[RNB65]

Vcu and mcv it is against state law to carry on campus.

No it isn't. VCU/MCV just defines its gun policy a little differently than other VA colleges, but the end result is the the same -- a non-student caught on any VA college campus with a gun will be charged with trespassing.

 

[frank23185]

I am a MCV alumnus. IIRC, it is in fact, forbidden by law to carry on VCU-MCV.
The only such college in Va to have such a prohibition.

 

[RNB65]

IIRC, it is in fact, forbidden by law to carry on VCU-MCV.

No it isn't. I work at MCV (aka VCUHS) and that's a very common fallacy that I hear all the time. If you think it it's true, please cite the Code of VA section which makes it illegal. You won't find one. I'll help -- here's the starting point:

http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+cod+TOC

 

[frank23185]

I concede, Sir, that you are correct. Thank you for prompting me to research the subject.

When I was a student there, the university said that it was a law, but it seems as though they were full of caca.

The law empowers them to regulate conduct of students and employees, but the Commonwealth does not prohibit carry on campus.

See this link:
http://www.oag.state.va.us/OPINIONS/2006opns/05-078.pdf

 

[marley]

http://www.vcdl.org/static/ccw.html

They don't mention the other schools on the vdcl site. They do have a link.


I don't know how to search all of the code. I could be wrong. patrick

 

[RNB65]

You're getting closer.

Notice in my first post that I said that VCU did their gun policy differently than other VA universities. Rather than writing a formal university policy on guns, VCU got lazy and just added an anti-gun statement in the VCU section of the state administrative code (item #4):

http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+reg+8VAC90-10-50

The trick is that state laws are defined in the Code of VA, not the state administrative code. The Admin code does not carry the force of law that the State code does. The Admin code is a sort of quasi-legal system which state agencies can use to create rules without having to ask the General Assembly to approve them. It's not state law, it's just a set of administrative requirements. Also, note that there is no penalty of any type specified for violating the VCU prohibition on guns.

 

[GHF]

Traveling Up I-95

You have a Florida. I have traveled your way many times to see my family in Pennsylvania.

1) Where does it need to be in the vehicle while we're driving? (particularly S.C.)

In Georgia and North Carolina, keep it on you concealed.

In South Carolina, the gun can be kept loaded in the glove compartment or the console.

In Virginia you can either carry concealed on your Florida OR carry open.

2) What if we stop to eat?

In Georgia and North Carolina, if there is booze it stays in the car.

In South Carolina, it stays in the car period.

In Virginia, you can go concealed if there is no alcohol being sold, but you must carry open if booze is sold.

3) What about Virginia colleges? May I keep it locked in a case in the trunk while present on campus?

You can carry concealed. The law says so - they can only ask you to leave. If you are student/employee, the Confused say you can not and remain a student or/and employee.

Cho had decided that he did not want to remain a student, so he did not care what the Confused policy said. In fact, Cho had been at Virginia Tech during both the discussion of the ban AND the response to an escaped con who had killed two cops by the local LEO's, so he knew just what he was up against. He was unstable, but not stupid.

 

[RobXD9]

Thanks for all the notes. You guys were really helpful!

Cheers.
-Rob