So once I am 18 I will be able to buy a rifle or shotgun that is not on this list.
So I could purchase a Remington model 11-48 12ga (I am not necessarily considering this one, its just the first I found that’s not on the assault weapon list.)
Correct, you can purchase a Remington semi-auto shotgun once you turn 18.
Now there is something else you may be interested to know. You cannot buy the rifle from a dealer until you are 18, but I think a parent can give you one as a
gift right now and you can posses it with ammo if you pass the hunter safety course. But this is moot because by the time you get into a class and pass the course, you will be 16 anyway and you don't need permission or the safety course to posses a loaded rifle after 16 as I understand it.
Then once I turn 21 I can buy hand hand guns on this list, Assault Weapons, Suppressers etc.
For bringing it on dorms its per-college for instance in UCSD Student Policies States
Depends on the state laws, and it depends on the college rules. Many states, even shall issue states, have laws against guns on school properties and many of them include higher education or universities in the definition of "schools".
Depending on state law, it might be a better idea to keep your gun in a storage locker off campus.
1 I go to an in-state (Maryland) school and it allows you to have possession of firearms if you jump though many hoops. Also I live on campus In this time I leave the firearms at my parents house, and keep my “residential address” the same as my parents.
Ok, this is the way it is with my university (Bowie State University), we have no real weapon's policy unless it is one used in a crime or to threaten someone. After the state started the retired police officer licensing for carry of firearms, I asked the campus police if my fellow student who is a retired police officer could carry on campus and they basically said that if he had a permit, then it did not matter to them, the rules and the law. My friend did not live on campus though.
Now here is the catch. On my university there are university dorms and there are dorms contracted out which are technically the private company's private property. The privately run dorms it is a no-no to have guns as I understand it and since they seem to be the trend in our state university system, then don't expect to be allowed to have one kept in the dorms on most state campuses.
I think that the private universities will have their own weapon's policies, but I don't think it would be a firearms violation if you were caught with one there, but there may be a tresspass charge of some sort involved.
If you had a carry permit, then I assume it would be one of those "if no problem occurs, then we don't care" deals with the university.
As far as keeping your address the same, I think that unless you have a lease off campus, then your residence is still your parents. For instance, when you live on campus, I am pretty sure they don't make you, or won't let you, change your license to reflect that address......but this does not matter too much because I believe you can have two "bona fide" residences anyway.
Like I said before, there is no MD law that I know of that says you must keep your regulated firearm (that is not NFA) at your residence and there is only an issue of transport of regulated firearms having to be between residences. I doubt that aspect of the law has EVER been enforced or attempted to be interpreted that way though. So if the firearms are at your parents and you don't live there, I believ there is no problem even if they are regulated.
2 I go to an in-state school and it does not allow possession of firearms in any capacity. Also I live on campus. Can I then transfer my firearms to my parents and then have them let me borrow them when I get a chance to go to the range?
Don't worry too much about leaving the firearms
you own at your parents. There are two things here: First, if you still have a room at your parents you call your own with your stuff in it, then you reside there as well (as my LEO sister put it). Second, because of the MD Court of Appeals decision, you can say you were lending the regulated firearms to your parents and never transfered it to them, but it would be much easier to state you still reside there at least part of the year and keep the firearms in your room.
3 I go to a Maryland school and live off campus, then I can have the guns off campus and everyone is happy.
Yes!!!...........but, you must be careful about if you are in an off campus housing or frat house because they may also have their own rules.
If you had your own place or if you leased it with other students who are not felons or otherwise prohibitted from possessing a firearm, then you can keep the firearms in your place of residence no problem. If someone in the house you are sharing is prohibitted, then keep them locked and you have the only key.
4 I go to an out of state school, that allows you to have possession of firearms via lots of paperwork and selling your soul. Between the time I move into the dorm and the time that I get that permission to possess firearms I transfer the firearms to my parents, and then they transfer them to me after I get permission.
Look, transferring regulated firearms in the state of MD is a pain in the ass and you want to avoid it as much as possible (though, I think there is no $10 fee when transferring between immediate family members). That is not to mention accross state lines transfers which recuires an FFL and usually costs over $30 per firearm. You can keep your regulated firearms at your parents as I understand it (see above) and if they are unregulated by the state (like a shotgun or rifle) then you don't have to worry about it in MD. Many states allow you to bring in your own firearms into the state when moving there and only some of them require registration when arriving or licenses or permits (FOID cards or something like that in some states).
Basically, if the state doesn't make you jump through hoops to bring guns into the state, then there is absolutely no reason to transfer the guns to your parents and then back again because you could claim dual residence in different states as I understand it.
If they make you jump through hoops to bring them into the state, then I see no reason why you couldn't keep them under your ownership in MD until they let you bring them into the state because MD would not prohibit your ownership in the state and the feds wouldn't have a problem with it either I believe.
5 I go to an out of state school (one far enough to make driving back on weekend difficult.) That never allows you to have firearms. In that case until I can make ends meet and live off campus are there places where you can rent space to store firearms?
That depends on the particular state's laws. I think the feds only care about where NFA are stored and don't have their own laws or rules on where non-licensee firearms are stored.
One last thing for the transporting firearms thing, if I have a rifle or shotgun in a bag, hidden from view, and unloaded, its fully legally?
According to state law and as
I undestand state law, it is perfectly legal if it is not readily accessible as a weapon that can be grabbed and used and that to mke means it just has to be unloaded. The way I see it, it doesn't even have to be in a bag......State and local police will disagree and would insist it be in the trunk. However, not all cars or trucks have a trunk and the way I read the law, the rifle or shotgun is perfeclty fine on the seat next to the person out of a case or bag...but I am bold and you may not want to try that.
Also, in Mont. Co and I think Baltimore city, they have to be either in a locked case, or locked in a gun rack, or have a gun lock on them as well as be unloaded.
