Opinion
Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- In late January, a Colorado teacher, while traveling in NY, was arrested by local authorities at the Airport in Albany, NY (ALB) as she declared her legally-owned and correctly packaged-for-travel pistol (in checked baggage) to SW Airlines for her trip home.
TSA enforces federal law, so they don’t care. But local authorities, enforcing state law (or at least their interpretation of it), made the arrest, after SW Airlines turned her in.
This is just the latest in a endless series of arrests by state authorities in NY, NJ, MD, CA, et al of hapless out-of-state gun-owners who made the mistake of trying to fly out of ALB, JFK, LGA, EWR, et al, or who voluntarily “reported” their guns to local police, naively thinking they were thus in compliance with local laws.
Even people in possession of empty magazines have been arrested!
In response, many writers have emphasized that, when traveling certain places, you must “know the law.”
Unfortunately, that provides scant protection.
As I’ve said before, “knowing the law” is probably impossible, because in reading the law, regulation, guideline, or rule, you will still not know how, where, by whom, or even if, “the law” is enforced.
What you really need to do is “know the agenda!”
Here it is.
In any state dominated by Democrats (like NY), gun-owners, local and out-of-state, will be mercilessly harassed, even thrown in jail, at every opportunity, and based on the most feeble of excuses. Cynical Democrats calculate that gun-owners don’t vote for them anyway, so they have nothing to lose in singling us out for punishment. That is their long-standing “agenda.”
Seeing innocent people rotting in jail doesn’t concern them, any more than it concerns Madura, down in Venezuela.
My advice is to stay out of NY and other states mentioned.
When you do travel out-of-state:
- (1) Maintain a low profile
- (2) Don’t talk about guns with anyone
- (3) Don’t “volunteer” information about yourself, nor your business
- (4) Don’t answer questions that weren’t asked
- (5) Don’t approach police and ask about local gun laws
- (6) Don’t fly-out of airports mentioned above
- (7) Don’t enter any building, nor “attraction,” where they are “wanding” entrants
- (8) Keep anything that could be identified as a “weapon” discreetly out of sight, out of conversation
- (9) Stay away from crowds, particularly events with political overtones
- (10) Don’t be “out” late at night. Conduct business during daylight hours
Remember, leftist politicians, including most Democrats, want all Americans forcibly disarmed.
When they get in positions of political power, they predictably use persecution and harassment to enforce that agenda, regardless of what “the law” supposedly says.
Don’t expect protection from our courts, nor our Constitution. Where Democrats rule (and they mean to rule), the fix is in.
/John
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served by the web of disinformation, illuminazis posing as defenders of the second ammendment, propagating the hoax “Reps v Dems”.
Jul 2014: Ukraine preview: What happens once citizens were disarmed and additionally now almost all accepted the Mark of the Beast
Nazis no longer need 30% support to terrorize and exterminate the rest, as Hitler 1933.
As Ukraine 2014 shows, now 3% will already do the job.
The number includes those who do it not because of ideology but of money, like thousands of paid football hooligans converted to nazi militias.
https://citizens-disarmed.blogspot.com/2014/11/what-happens-once-citizens-were.html
You can always UPS/FedEx/USPS your long gun to and from a hunting trip. Not sure about handguns.
When driving through one of these states, secure all firearms, ammo AND accessories in a locked container. If stopped, say the container contains “valuables”. Then shut up.
A good site to go to, to check current law (updated almost daily) is handgunlaw dot us
You can get in even more trouble in a supposedly gun friendly state carrying concealed if you are unaware, for instance, that state just repealed reciprocity agreements with your state.
Is it a dumb law? YES, but is the law. and Ignorance of the law or disagreement with the law is not a defence in court. A simple google search will tell you that New York do not recognize other states permits, New York City do not recognize the rest of the state pistol permits to tell you more. So the article focus on the wrong aspect, why not tell every gun owner to educate themselves on the Law of the states they are visiting. Is the gun owners responsibility to know and obey the law as dumb as they… Read more »
Democrats rule where they are VOTED IN AS THE MAJORITY, Mr. Farnum. They did not arrive from outer space. ‘We have met the enemy and he is us’- Pogo. So who is responsible for the ‘fix’? WE ARE!
“TSA enforces federal law, so they don’t care. But local authorities, enforcing state law (or at least their interpretation of it), made the arrest, after SW Airlines turned her in.”
And THERE is the rub. Why did SW Airlines “turn her in?” If the story is accurate, she was merely attempting to check a properly prepared firearm. Do we have local employees of the airlines turning people in when they try to check a firearm?
John, perhaps a call to SW Airlines would shed some light.