The question of whether the state you're transporting to and from should have been addressed with a uniform nationwide system for reciprocity of CCW permits, but so far it has not been.
I was surprised to find out, for example, that Florida cannot recognize Vermont residents as CCW permit holders because -- Vermont doesn't issue the permits! Amazing. As a result of that Florida cannot, of course, decide whether those permits that aren't issued really exist, and they're quite correct in that determination, so believe it or not your VT "right" is not recognized in FLA but can you believe it if you are from so many other states and you're a resident, they are. Just not if you're from Vermont.
Absolutely mind boggling. It's total Weirdo that Florida will honor Washington State permits but because of the way Vermont....doesn't do it....they cannot honor Vermont resident rights. This is the kind of crazy thing that happens when nobody has any kind of nationwide standards.
What the states need to do is make their laws regarding this more .... whatever you want to call it. Compartmented, interchangeable, uniform, it doesn't matter -- so that CCW permitting requirements comport from one place to another. In so many cases across the country, politicians have found it more attractive to play each state off against the next. And in some cases the legislatures themselves do not have the authority to enact reciprocity agreements, but they should. It's something every State Legislature should be doing.
I think it's nuts that Massachusetts doesn't have reciprocity with Connecticut. If anything, the requirements for certification here are higher, but apparently we haven't had enough effort expended yet to make it happen. We should.
When traveling in the United States there should be something approaching a Uniform Firearm Permitting Standard so that Utah doesn't have to try and serve as the example forever, but I would start with Utah's model and work from there. New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut...Maryland...South Carolina....Rhode Island.....and California need to get on board and cut the crap. It's all the Northeastern states plus California and their holdouts in Nevada. Want to change that? It's the work that has to be done in the legislature. This nutbag rule that these states don't recognize anyone and nobody recognizes them either has to end, eventually. It's needlessly expensive, needlessly burdensome, it's actually dangerous to the person who responsibly owns the firearm, and it's a gotcha game of the worst kind.
Americans are mobile people and this baloney about differing rules is an impediment to their way of life. There should be universal rules across state lines just like there are for automobile licenses. I can drive state to state in this country and make little loops and circles and crash into trees with my car, but dang it when I move from one jurisdiction to another with a gun in the vehicle I'm either a criminal or a regular old citizen or just someone unremarkable. That should change, and it should be as unremarkable as possible to my way of thinking.