Traveling with musket

[conradin]

Hello I have a Leger-Charleville and I drive a van, hence there is no trunk to cover things up. When I travel with my musket do I need to put it in a blanket case, or has to be in a soft or hard case that can be locked up? Can I travel with it uncased, since by Federal Law a musket is not a firearm. If I take the lock out and leave the stock and barrel out in the open to be seen in the van while traveling, will it be OK?

Finally what is your experience about carrying your musket uncased from the parking lot of a range to the firing line? Doe some of the ranges insist that the musket be cased?

The major reason for asking this is that a hard lockable for a musket is extremely expensive due to it length. (62"+).

I live in California, if that helps you for answering my questions, thanks.

 

[EljaySL]

Just to avoid any potential arguments with LEOs or range officials most people use some kind of soft sided case. These are nice - there's a place to put rods and you can put a padlock on it so it can't be unzipped.

http://uniquecases.com/product/66-musket-case/

 

[vagunmonkey]

Uniquecases are fantastic! I have 10 of them in various sizes and colors for all of my black powder rifles/muskets. They are very well made and provide a lot of padding.

 

[Jim Watson]

Pack it up. A nervous busybody who calls in a Man With A Gun in that van THERE is going to get the cops excited and they are not going to care if it is a flintlock or a machine gun.
You do not want to pay a lawyer to explain the difference in court.

 

[45 Dragoon]

Wow!!
It's a shame that such questions even have to be asked . . . . We have come a looooooong way. What would the "Father's" think? Infringed?

Mike
www.goonsgunworks.com

 

[4v50 Gary]

Legally a soft case/blanket case is fine. Use a hard case for protection. BTW, TSA tried to fine me once for flying with an undeclared firearm (I did tell the ticket agents what was in the box). Atty Gen. dismissed the charge after it was pointed out that a flintlock is not federally regulated.

Lesson: Don't underestimate the stupidity of officials. Save yourself from hassle.

 

[conradin]

>Wow!! It's a shame that such questions even have to be asked . . . . We have come a looooooong way. What would the "Father's" think? Infringed?
No worries, in 5 years time I will ask the same question about BB gun.

 

[44 Dave]

When a friend of mine opened the back of his SUV to show me his new shot gun the "out of state guys" were shocked to see it uncased and a box of shells there too. Welcome to Wisconsin about 4 years ago it was made legal to have uncased long guns and bows, including crossbows in a vehicle.

 

[zimmerstutzen]

cased wrapped and hidden from view.

otherwise it is just smash and grab bait.

Junkies don't care what it is, if they can steal it in 5 seconds and sell it for $10.00 or more.

 

[yugorpk]

Don't worry about federal gun laws . Its the state laws you'll get prosecuted under. In any case in California they not considered firearms either UNLESS you are using them for hunting in which case you cannot transport a loaded black powder rifle in a vehicle.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Pack it up. A nervous busybody who calls in a Man With A Gun in that van THERE is going to get the cops excited and they are not going to care if it is a flintlock or a machine gun.
You do not want to pay a lawyer to explain the difference in court

It isn't a court situation to worry over. Some yahoo suburbanite or City Slicker will call in "man with a gun" and that will get you stopped and gunfaced, you might get tazed or shot. Some of these youngsters out there are not very gun savvy and are a bit tense. And quite frankly, YOU SHOULD BE gunfaced. How many times has a law enforcement officer been ambushed this year?

Folks we all know the average person out there doesn't know a flintlock from a full auto, and the press (and the "educators" who decide on curriculum) have taught the vast majority of sheeple out there "duh...gun bad". KNOWING THAT, WHY WOULD YOU TRAVEL IN A VEHICLE WITH THE MUSKET UNCASED?

I travel all the time just outside of Washington DC, and around Baltimore, and I have a station wagon so my long guns are in full view of my fellow travellers, and the muskets are cased, in cloth bags...and NOBODY ever reacts, because the Baltimorons can't tell the difference between guns when they see them, and when they don't actually see them they have no clue they are there.

Yes we all know how it should be...but this is the real world. You also have the right to walk down the middle of the street in Ferguson MO with a "KKK" T-shirt on, and nobody is supposed to harm you, but you will get your arse kicked anyway....and most of us would say, "Why would you do that, and expect not to get an arse whipping, knowing the situation there?"

LD