ORIGINAL: the_sandman_454
Be particularly careful if you're passing through "non gun friendly" states. From the reading and news stories I've seen with regard to the matter in some places, they consider any stop (including stopping to eat or fuel up) as a violation of the law, since you're not passing through at the particular moment, you've stopped.
I have no personal experience with it, but have seen enough "horror stories" of such places that I would definitely suggest being careful about planning stops carefully.
This may be true. I would not stop in either the People's Republik of New Jersey or within the boundaries of NEW YORK CITY. In the rest of the state of NY, I would not worry about a long gun, just handguns........