Posted: 7/10/2015 5:06:16 PM EDT
| I'm going to take a business trip to Pittsburgh next week and plan to fly with my 1911. I've flown with firearms before in checked luggage and I'm familiar with TSA protocol, but are there funny PA state or Pittsburgh city laws that I need to know about? Magazine capacity restrictions? Miscellaneous slave-state BS? |
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Just dont get diverted to a ny or nj airport which is very doubtful, but you never know.. They will nail you to the cross in both ny or nj.
PA is an awesome state for 99% of the laws are very pro gun.. The only 1% i can think they are not is hunting with a semi-auto. |
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Can it happen? Your plane takes off from Philly has a problem winds up landing in NJ and you have to reboard and your luggage is rescanned.
Your dead meet in NJ with a gun. I'd get in writing something to protect yourself and I personally be concerned with TSA or someone stealing your gun. I was always advised to make sure it is insured. Just giving you something to think about. I understand you have flown with a checked in gun. You lucked out. |
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For everyone discussing NJ or NY... I believe the Firearm Owners Protection Act , Safe Passage Provision would apply.  nope.. read and weap thank communist |
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For everyone discussing NJ or NY... I believe the Firearm Owners Protection Act , Safe Passage Provision would apply. nope.. read and weap thank communist  I got nothing.
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hmm came up for me
snippit gun owners across the country have been allowed to drive through all states with impunity, providing that their origin and destination states allow them to carry; they have been afforded the opportunity to check guns at one airport and pick them up at another; and they have been permitted to make short stops in unwelcoming jurisdictions on their way to happier climes. “Almost,” however, is an important word: True to form, both New York and New Jersey have recently decided that their own rules should trump federal law. And the results have been disastrous. Much to their surprise, many gun owners have been arrested when trying to check in with firearms for flights out of New York and New Jersey airports, when trying to collect their firearms at airports in those states, and even when diverted from other flight paths and given back their bags prematurely. . . . Unhappily, New York and New Jersey have been helped on their nasty little way by the Third Circuit, which ruled somewhat bizarrely in 2013 that a provision in FOPA that refers only to “vehicles” could not conceivably be held to apply to commercial aircraft. The case was brought by a man named Gregg Revell, a resident of Utah who was arrested by the New Jersey police while on his way to Allentown, Penn. At Newark Airport, Revell missed his connecting flight, necessitating a night’s stay in a hotel. As is standard procedure, he was given back his luggage for the evening and instructed to recheck it the next day. When he attempted to do precisely this, he was arrested — and charged with illegal possession of a firearm. |