Need statutes for transporting firearms for several states as well as federal

[.cheese.]

I could look these up, but something tells me some members probably have these bookmarked making my life a little easier.

I need the links to statutes pertaining to traveling through with a firearm or firearms in the sense of transporting personally owned firearms. I need them for the following states:

Florida
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Arkansas
Tennessee
Kansas
Missouri
Iowa
Kentucky
Minnesota
Illinois
Indiana

I also need the federal statute pertaining to interstate transport of personally owned firearms and ammunition.

If you guys can't provide me with these, don't worry about it - I can always look them up one by one myself online or on Westlaw, but I figured I'd start out by asking for assistance while I work on packing my stuff in boxes right now.

Thanks

also - as for why so many states - I haven't finalized which route I'm taking from here to Minnesota yet, and those states are in various routes I'm picking from. I'll most likely only be passing through 6 or 7 states in my route but am asking for the statutes for more than double that many.

 

[Oro]

You only need one law, USC 926. It covers interstate travel and individual states can't impose different rules if you are just passing through.

It is being discussed right now here:

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=448144

So just go read those posts and jump in that discussion I would recommend.

 

[.cheese.]

What if I stop in a state at a hotel for a night's rest before I continue on the next day?

 

[isp2605]

No problem in IL with FOPA.
IL law requires that firearms be unloaded and in a case. A case is defined by statute as "a container specifically designed for the purpose of housing a gun or bow and arrow device which completely encloses such gun or bow and arrow device by being zipped, snapped, buckled, tied, or otherwise fastened with no portion of the gun or bow and arrow device exposed."
Ammo can be stored in the same case as the firearm. Mags can be loaded but loaded mags cannot be carried in the gun. Empty mags can be in the gun.

 

[.cheese.]

hmmm... that presents a problem with my rifles. I have no cases for them, so they're wrapped in tissue paper which is wrapped in bubble-wrap and then taped shut in muptiple spots, then placed in a custom made cardboard box which totally encloses it, which is taped shut, and then wrapped in brown postal paper which is also taped shut.

does that qualify? I made so many steps so that it would be obviously not accessible.

 

[isp2605]

When you buy a new gun at the store to take it home it may come in the factory shipping box. While that isn't a "case" in the sense of something made of leather or nylon with a full length zipper that you would buy at a sporting goods store, it is "a container specifically designed for the purpose of housing a gun..." in that it was used to transport the gun from factory to dealer and and it "completely encloses such gun". With the gun broken down, unloaded, bubble wrapped, in a box and tape too you'll be fine.

 

[.cheese.]

broken down?

I just took out the mag and boxed it up like that.

Should I have removed the barrel or separated the upper from lower with ARs?

 

[.cheese.]

I've run into a problem.

http://thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=448641

The trunk of my car is too small for the guns. If I can put the guns in the passenger compartment the way they are, wrapped in tissue paper, which is wrapped in bubble wrap, taped up, placed in a cardboard box, taped up, and wrapped in postal/parcel paper taped up..... and then the mags and ammo in the trunk, then I'm fine. If I have to put the guns in the trunk though, I've got a physics problem.

Small car = Infiniti G35 (2007)

Decent size collection: 22 guns, couple hundred mags total if I remember correctly, a couple full cans of ammo, and a lot of custom painted but still empty cans.

The empty cans I could potentially ship to myself, but that doesn't really solve the problem.

 

[isp2605]

Can't answer for the other states but for IL you'll be fine with the way you have them wrapped and boxed.

 

[.cheese.]

yeah.... that's a problem. I'll have to redo this whole thing.

 

[.cheese.]

ok. I solved it. By putting the handguns in smaller boxes without their actual case, just surrounded by tissue paper, I was able to make them fit. I'll just have to bring the cases separated in the back seat with the guns themselves in the trunk in boxes.