Question about transporting revolver across state lines

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In August I will be moving from Missouri to New York State. The guns laws, that I have found for that State seem a bit odd in the wording. According to what I read a nonresident cannot transport a weapon into the State. Does this mean even if I have a permit for the revolver, and it is registered, in Missouri...I cannot take my weapon with me?

I have already sold off four of my weapons, and it would break my heart to lose this one.
 
The NRA will refer you to an attorney in New York who can give you some free advice. Get in touch with them via their website. Don't make a mistake in New York that can turn into a felony.
 
NY is one of the worst states for handguns. It is one of the only states in the entire nation where it is a crime just to have a handgun in your own home without a specific license from New York.
Not a license to carry, a license just to own the gun!

If you move to New York and have a handgun in your home without a license you are guilty of a felony if uncovered.

The license process can also be relatively archaic. You need to cite references, and the references often need to reside in the same county! They have to be willing to help you get the privilege of owning a handgun in your home.
These references often cannot be relatives.


For example a quick search to give you an example turned up this for Ontario County:
http://www.co.ontario.ny.us/coclerk/PistolPermits.html
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Four character references are needed to sign the two applications and complete a reference sheet. The references must be residents of Ontario County and must be acquaintances of yours for at least five years. Character references may not be relatives of the applicant. References cannot be related to each other (ex. Husband and wife). If you are unable to meet the five-year requirement for your references, list the references anyway and specify the number of years you have been acquainted. Then you will also need to get 4 additional references from where you previously lived.
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This means you would need 8 character references, some of whom should have known you for at least 5 years, 4 references from that county, and 4 from your previous state, none of them relatives, that would all say good things about you and recommend that you be allowed to own a handgun.

You then are expected to wait about a year for the application to be processed, and it would be illegal to possess a handgun until it is processed, and then only if you are granted the license:
Processing time for the pistol permit is approximately 8 months to 1 year after submitting the application to the Clerk's Office.
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How can you gun be registered in Missouri when Missouri doesn't register firearms. You say you have a permit for the revolver. I am not sure what you mean by that, as Missouri doesn't not give permits for individual firearms. Do you mean you have a Missouri ccw permit?

In order for you to work with New York on your move, you must first know your Missouri situation.
 
In NY state, you can't even touch a handgun in a gun store with out a ny state pistol permit. Friends of mine who got their permit had to wait a year to be approved. I'm glad I don't live there anymore. It would be best not to risk it
 
You can not possess any handgun in NYS without a NYS pistol permit, even in your home. You should either leave the gun in Missouri or better yet stay in Missouri. You would need to have an FFL in your home state ship the revolver to an FFL in NYS. They will hold it until you can obtain a NYS pistol permit. This can take 6 to 18 months depending the county. Which county are you looking at? The cost of living in NY is very expensive,especially downstate. Also remember that NYS has an assault weapons ban. Non preban mags are limited to 10 rounds and lots of other crap.
 
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How can you gun be registered in Missouri when Missouri doesn't register firearms. You say you have a permit for the revolver. I am not sure what you mean by that, as Missouri doesn't not give permits for individual firearms. Do you mean you have a Missouri ccw permit?
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I would imagine they are talking about a carry permit. In many portions of the US the term 'permit' or 'license' only applies to carrying the gun around with you loaded, not mere ownership.
Most of the United States requires no license to own a firearm, and so many people that grow up in such a place all their life don't even anticipate a difficult to obtain license just to legally store a firearm in their home.

Someone going from a state where a permit is only necessary to carry the gun around loaded, and is easier to obtain than a license to merely own a gun in your home and that often takes more than a year instead of a month, is in for a certain culture shock.

New York requirements are so beyond unConstitutional you cannot expect someone from the South to expect something like them even exists in the same country.
 
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I will be living in Tioga County with my cousin and her family. I can no longer afford to live in Missouri, and there is no family here...so I am forced to go where I am wanted/loved and where I can at least hopefully save a little money.

This is a whole can of worms I've opened up with just wanting to move. *sigh* As much as this breaks my heart, and angers me beyond words (I don't like ANYONE, not even a government, telling me what I can and cannot do...what I can and cannot own etc.) it looks like the only solution is to sell my precious revolver and pray that at some point I can get another one.
 
Been a long time since I've visited the 'Southern Tier', but it is right on the NY/PA border.

Could there be a nearby town in Pennsylvania where you could rent a safe deposit box for tens of dollars a year?

Looks like a couple of small towns in PA about 15 miles away from Tioga, NY down Route 17.

Since you are going to be there, enjoy the scenery, the Finger Lakes, the fall colors.
 
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IF you are talking about one revolver, rent a bank safety deposit box for a year or two, clean lube, wrap in the anti-rust paper, etc., and leave it in a bank in MO. Once you get to NY and begin their arcane process and you complete it, take a vacation back to the MO bank and get your gun and go through whatever process remains in NY
 
If you really want to hold on to your revolver, I would go the safe deposit box route...IN PA..as close to where you will live as is possible. Then as soon as you get to NYS start the process to get your permit. PA is quite firearm frendly.

If it was Sullivan Co I might have been able to assist a bit (I have inlaws in government (DA) in Sullivan Co) but wrong county, so I know you are going to have to do it on your own.

Many many years ago (1967) my FIL (in NY) gave me a beautiful Colt revolver and basicly told me to take it out of NYS and never bring it back. Even though my FIL had lived in rural NYS all his life, owned many different weapons including other pistols, and was a town official, He had just inherited this Colt himself...his solution to his simular to your problem was to give the pistol to me and get it out of the state. I was very happy to do that for him, and still have that Colt. It is one of my most prized posessions.

What a difference between NY and WA. In 1961, WA passed RCW 9.41 that created a Concealed pistol license...and that was a step backwards for WA. Prior to 1961 you could carry open or concealed without any permit necessary. You can still OC here in WA without a permit, but you do need a CPL to carry concealed..
 
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