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Traveler's Guide to the Firearm Laws of the Fifty States

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Scott Kappas' "Traveler's Guide to the firearm Laws of the Fifty States" provides an excellent overview of the legal environment facing anyone who wishes to transport firearms away from his or her home state. It begins with some useful definitions of frequently used terms, such as "Castle Doctrine," "affirmative defenses," and even terms which shouldn't require definition, but do, such as "loaded." (Some states consider a gun loaded if a nearby magazine has ammunition in it.) The bulk of the book is a state by state summary, starting with a "Traveler's Checklist," dealing with permitting, right of self-defense, concealed carry, open carry, and vehicle carry. Restrictions on assault weapons and machine gun ownership are also covered. This is principally a book about handguns and concealed carry laws. There is some mention of transporting long guns for hunting, but this book isn't written with the itinerant hunter in mind. An appendix covers travel to Canada and Mexico. Perhaps the most useful are the three final pages, displaying the reciprocity provisions each state has with other states. Kappas provides a map of the US so that each reader can shade in the states where his carry permit is recognized. As a Connecticut permit holder, my map remains mostly white, since the CT carry permit is recognized in only 11 states, none of them contiguous. I can only hope that future editions of this useful book will enable me to shade in more of that map.

Not as much information for each state as I was hoping for. There are better sources available that are currently on the market.

Book was 2003 and most info in it was outdated and there fore useless. The 2003 year was not stated. This type of info must be current to be relevent.

This book is a must for people traveling from state to state and carrying a weapon on board and staying in a different state than where your CCW was issued. A great find for us. Thank you Amazon.

This book is a MUST for anyone that wants to travel with a firearm in thier possession across state lines. The information contained about OPEN and CONCEALED carry is invaluable. Good book and I recommend it.

John

Very well written and concise. A handy guide when travelling. Make sure you select the 2011 version from the "Customer Image" thumbnails; otherwise you may get an older edition.