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Yep, it would not apply unless your destination state had no issue with your handgun. If you were heading to Vermont, for example, you'd be covered, but then again a Maryland, New Jersey, or New York cop could decide to arrest you anyway, in which case you'd have to argue the point in court. That law should have been given more meat, such as an automatic cause of action against the arresting officers if your rights under it are violated, even unintentionally.

There's this, too. Good points.

Why not?

For one, a traffic stop and subsequent illegal search.

Vehicle accident with injuries, vehicle contents inventoried by PD.
Vehicle theft.
Vehicle burglary.

So many ways one can get in a pinch...

Because that would show that he had prior knowledge of what the law is and was intentionally breaking it.

Ignorance of the law is hardly ever a permissible defense. Exceptions are where activities are legal in most state, but not legal in a few, and a person is a visitor in one of those few states. However, it's not a reliable defense even then, assuming the law has been adequately publicized.

NYC even prosecutes copp from other states carrying, while on official duty in the city

OP said it's legal up to NY?
Maybe if he drives up I79 Through WV And PA.
Better not go through MD. They dont like handguns much.
I've committed felonies several times in my life, many were haveing
A loaded handgun in MD. Unintentionally.


There is a long N/S oriended mountain running to MD.
A nice dam sits on a big chunk of public access land on the east
side, just north of the border. It's much shorter for some to go into
MD, then come north. A friend called Maryland State Police and
explained, and ash if there was any problem with him transporting
a handgun.

"Its illegal, you are looking at time if caught"

Any way I can do it to be legal.

"Sure. Go the long way around and stay out of Maryland!"

Yep. Maryland isn't a handgun friendly state. I have a bunch, and shoot them regularly, but am careful about following the rules for transport (which frankly are kind of nebulous). If I were traveling north through Maryland to points beyond, I would lock them in the trunk, unloaded and with unloaded magazines stored separately, and select the shortest route. I-81 from Va and WV, through Washington County, MD, will only expose you to Maryland for about 10-15 minutes and then you're home free in PA. One slight advantage to it being a pretty narrow state. Just mind the speed limit, don't have a busted tail light, and don't do anything dumb to give the cops a reason to pull you over. Angling farther East to transit the state puts you into the snarl of suburban Maryland and a much longer transit time with increased exposure to possible hassles.

We're a Blue state, sure, but rest assured there are a lot of right-thinking folks here. We chafe at being controlled by the urban/suburban lefty attitudes that control state politics. Huge chunks of the state to the west and east of the Baltimore-Washington corridor are as Red as any state in the union, but without the population size to overcome the idiocy. (And no, I ain't gonna move to a Red state, because A) I can't afford to, and B) my life is here, and C) I'm getting too old to pull up stakes yet again anyway.

Gnoahhh you visit Baltimore often?
Lol

Oh hell no! I live 25 minutes from that schithole and haven't set foot there in about six years. Ditto DC.