Travel between Massachusetts and Pennsylvania

What do you carry if you 'have to' drive thru NJ? Hornady FTX rounds? Cause those bullets are not scary hollow points?
 
I drove from Massachusetts to Montana with 20 guns, at least 45,000 rounds of ammo, 30 pounds of powder, thousands of primers, tens of thousands of brass, 10,000 lead bullets, 600 pounds of lead and a handgun at the rest at all times. I couldn't give a shit what the state laws were.

But in my defense, I had enough hardware to hold off the best of any national guard in any state 😀
 
Having a LTC card is grounds enough for reasonable articulate suspicion to search your car? lol bruh.
Not necessarily, but it puts you in a difficult position - tell the truth and invite misapplication of the law; get evasive and the cop will conclude you have a gun are are trying to hide it; or outright lie. Easiest to avoid by moderate application of stealth technology.
 
Just don't get lit up for speeding like this. Do people in free states really drive around with 'truck guns' like this just riding on the passenger seat and floor well? lol. Unfathomable coming from MA thinking.

Yes they do, actually. Come to think of it I dont have a single friend in NH that doesn't roll around with guns in their car save for one or two that have to go into secured gov facilities where guns are banned by random searches etc.

I know of a case in MA where a car was impounded when consent to search was not given for a car parked in a college lot. The officer saw a British 303 spent case, and a warrant was granted - even though a gun in the car of the confirmed LTC holder would not be a crime on school property unless improperly stored or carried in his/her person. The warrant was issued based on the officer's declaration it was illegal to have a gun in the car on school property in the warrant application (yes, I read it). The victim in this case violated the first rule - he failed to be the gray man, or as I would call it, get lost in a crowd of one.

I know of another case where a driver was hassled because the NYSP trooper recognized a CT carry permit in his wallet. Having a LEO as aback seat passenger is what saved him, as the cop did not want to hear anything about NY penal code 265.20(13) that provides an exemption for visiting competitors to an NRA sanctioned match (and the NRA is very good about sanctioning non-NRA like USPSA matches - the matcho rganizer sends the training department a form, the apply a rubber approved stamp, and send it back)

It's amazing how many people have their LTC front in center in their wallet so others can see it when the get out their credit card, pay in cash, present ID to prove their papers are in order, etc.

Worth making sure you can open your trunk to change a tire without any evidence of guns being visible if you are transiting non-permissive territory.

Imho all of that should be gun owner 101 in any place one isn't familiar with or potentially hostile to gun owners. It's basically free bingo squares.
 
What do you carry if you 'have to' drive thru NJ? Hornady FTX rounds? Cause those bullets are not scary hollow points?

Does not compute.

Because you never "have to" drive through NJ. It's all about priorities: will it cost you an extra couple hours to avoid Jersey? Maybe. Is it worth it to avoid getting slimed by the NJ stench as you drive through? Certainly is to me...
 
There is a spot on I-84 where PA, NY, and NJ meet. I get off the highway there and fill up in NJ. In and out in under 10 minutes, never a problem.

The NY Troopers like to sit on the median strip instead of the sides of the road. PA Troopers do the same. Once you hit PA the only potential problem is crossing into MD on I-81.

84 aint bad from CT to PA, I do it quite a bit to pick up and drop off my kid at Penn State.
My wife got off once and got gas and the receipt said NJ, so apparently looking at the map there is one very tiny stretch where you may hit NJ, not sure to be honest.
IANAL but according to FOPA you *should* be fine.
Pike to NYS thruway is the other way to go, longer time in NY by far.
 
PAPD (NY/NJ airport cops) are the only entity known to really do that. regardless the pant shitting hysteria about this is over the top. If you're not driving a junk like a maniac, and not driving in the sticks, nobody will even pay attention to you on any of the big NY/NJ corridors. These roads move many thousands of cars a day. You can basically be a grain of sand on a beach, rather
easily.
It's happened. Thats all.
 
Does not compute.

Because you never "have to" drive through NJ. It's all about priorities: will it cost you an extra couple hours to avoid Jersey? Maybe. Is it worth it to avoid getting slimed by the NJ stench as you drive through? Certainly is to me...

I go through NJ if im going to time it to avoid all the traffic… (early AM) . if it’s already light out when i leave i end up going the back way. The back way is a much nicer drive regardless.
 
No one follows the speed limit in CT. It also has the lowest density of troopers along that route.

I have done this trip many times with firearms. I don't have a Conn. out of state permit and no NY permit. Just make sure your firearms are unloaded and locked up in casses and covered up or in the trunk. There is no reason to declare you have firearms if you are stopped. It will be in your best interest that your vehicles lights are all working and you follow the speed limit in Conn. and NY. your trip should be uneventful.
 
There is a spot on I-84 where PA, NY, and NJ meet. I get off the highway there and fill up in NJ. In and out in under 10 minutes, never a problem.

See, that's precisely why I don't get off to get gas there (apart from despising Jersey).

State-enforced full service gas stations can EABOD. I don't sit down to pee, and I don't let another man pump my gas for me.
 
PAPD (NY/NJ airport cops) are the only entity known to really do that. regardless the pant shitting hysteria about this is over the top. If you're not driving a junk like a maniac, and not driving in the sticks, nobody will even pay attention to you on any of the big NY/NJ corridors. These roads move many thousands of cars a day. You can basically be a grain of sand on a beach, rather
easily.
Why the laugh? It's happened to people just driving through the the sate.
 
Why the laugh? It's happened to people just driving through the the sate.
Not with enough frequency worth caring about.

Others can keep shitting their pants if they want though and avoid doing things that are perfectly legal.
 
Despite the full service BS, the prices are significantly better than either PA or NY. I top off in Sturbridge and then again there. I can usually make it to WV before I fill up again.

See, that's precisely why I don't get off to get gas there (apart from despising Jersey).

State-enforced full service gas stations can EABOD. I don't sit down to pee, and I don't let another man pump my gas for me.
 
Despite the full service BS, the prices are significantly better than either PA or NY. I top off in Sturbridge and then again there. I can usually make it to WV before I fill up again.

Sure, because it's subsidized by a nanny state insisting on perpetuating a useless make-work scheme that increases socialism directly.

No thank you. It could be ten cents a gallon and I'd still refuse to pay it. That shitty policy deserves NO support from anyone who values capitalism.
 
Okay then.

Sure, because it's subsidized by a nanny state insisting on perpetuating a useless make-work scheme that increases socialism directly.

No thank you. It could be ten cents a gallon and I'd still refuse to pay it. That shitty policy deserves NO support from anyone who values capitalism.
 
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