Razor_J
Member
Hi everyone I have been digging through various posts about advice for carrying weapons into and out of Maryland. I am set to go on a business trip there for 2 months. Typically I go to a location for 2 months, work there, and return home for a couple days before I fly out again. If my next location is some place like Chicago or another absurdly strict gun control area I leave my concealed carry weapons at home before I fly out again. This time my company is flying me directly from my current location which honors my permit, to Baltimore Maryland which does not. As such, I do not have time to fly home and drop off my carry weapon. I keep it in a hard back case with 3 pad locks which have been quite satisfactory for traveling through airports.
Upon reading the law I took away from it that unless I am going to a shooting event/moving my collection or traveling through the state to go to an event in a different state, or have a permit from Maryland, then I am not allowed to transport my weapon regardless of it being unloaded and secured. Secured meaning, an unloaded weapon with unloaded and separate magazines and ammunition in secured boxes that are inside the same locked case as the gun. Am I reading the law wrong or have things changed? If I can bring it with me it will go straight from the airport to my temporary apartment (I bring super thick cable padlocks in the case to padlock it to the underside of the bed frame in my room) and will remain unloaded and locked in the case for the entirety of the trip. I would then transport it back to the airport and fly out of Maryland hopefully never to return.
All the forum posts I can find are about folks from nearby who are vacationing and traveling through Maryland or are heading into Maryland to purchase a car/motorcycle and promptly leaving Maryland. That does not really apply to my situation and I hope someone from Maryland willl have insight on how I should handle this problem.
Also does anyone suspect that I will go through interrogation/issues once my weapons case arrives in Maryland's airport?
Upon reading the law I took away from it that unless I am going to a shooting event/moving my collection or traveling through the state to go to an event in a different state, or have a permit from Maryland, then I am not allowed to transport my weapon regardless of it being unloaded and secured. Secured meaning, an unloaded weapon with unloaded and separate magazines and ammunition in secured boxes that are inside the same locked case as the gun. Am I reading the law wrong or have things changed? If I can bring it with me it will go straight from the airport to my temporary apartment (I bring super thick cable padlocks in the case to padlock it to the underside of the bed frame in my room) and will remain unloaded and locked in the case for the entirety of the trip. I would then transport it back to the airport and fly out of Maryland hopefully never to return.
All the forum posts I can find are about folks from nearby who are vacationing and traveling through Maryland or are heading into Maryland to purchase a car/motorcycle and promptly leaving Maryland. That does not really apply to my situation and I hope someone from Maryland willl have insight on how I should handle this problem.
Also does anyone suspect that I will go through interrogation/issues once my weapons case arrives in Maryland's airport?
