ORIGINAL: bgates
I mabye moving from Georgia back home to central New york in the next few weeks and I own ahandgun. I know I cannot just pack it and bring it with me driving across state lines and the laws in N.Y. are strict and it takes awhile to get a permit there. So my question is what do people do with their handguns in a case like this?
When I moved from Texas to NY in 1989, I left my handguns in TX with my daughter until I was able to get a NY pistol permit, which took me about 9 months. Then I had to have her ship the guns to a federally licensed dealer from whom I could pick them up and have them "put on my pistol permit" at the Sheriff's Office.
(I did bring one with me, but it was a Ruger "OLD ARMY" cap & ball revolver, which is "not a firearm" under NY law,
unless it is accompanied by powder, balls & caps!! I put it on my permit later, because I got powder, balls & caps so I could shoot it - it then became a "firearm".
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