§926A — Title 18 Crimes and Criminal Procedure | U.S. Code

Summary

Even if a state or local law says otherwise, a person who is not banned by federal law from transporting, shipping, or receiving a firearm may move a firearm for any lawful reason from a place where they can legally have and carry it to another such place. While traveling the gun must be unloaded, and neither the gun nor any ammo can be easily reached from the passenger area; if the vehicle has no separate trunk, the gun and ammo must be in a locked container that is not the glove box or console.

Title 18, §926A

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Notwithstanding any other provision of any law or any rule or regulation of a State or any political subdivision thereof, any person who is not otherwise prohibited by this chapter from transporting, shipping, or receiving a firearm shall be entitled to transport a firearm for any lawful purpose from any place where he may lawfully possess and carry such firearm to any other place where he may lawfully possess and carry such firearm if, during such transportation the firearm is unloaded, and neither the firearm nor any ammunition being transported is readily accessible or is directly accessible from the passenger compartment of such transporting vehicle: Provided, That in the case of a vehicle without a compartment separate from the driver’s compartment the firearm or ammunition shall be contained in a locked container other than the glove compartment or console.

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Prior Provisions

A prior section 926A, added Pub. L. 99–308, § 107(a), May 19, 1986, 100 Stat. 460, provided that any person not prohibited by this chapter from transporting, shipping, or receiving a firearm be entitled to transport an unloaded, not readily accessible firearm in interstate commerce notwithstanding any provision of any legislation enacted, or rule or regulation prescribed by any State or political subdivision thereof, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 99–360, § 1(a).

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Effective Date

Section effective on date on which Firearms Owners’ Protection Act, Pub. L. 99–308, became effective, see section 2 of Pub. L. 99–360, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1986

Amendments

note under section 921 of this title.

§926A Interstate transportation of firearms

Summary

Title 18, §926A

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