Greetings,
I do 2 or 3 mid-distance to longer-distance rides (3k - 6k miles) a year on a motorcycle. I have MA LTC and both Florida and Utah non-resident carry permits. Bike is garaged in FL so I don't need to ride through 2A-hostile states in the Northeast.
I've considered Colorado, California, and a few other States that I might otherwise want to ride through as off-limits on past rides and I've stayed out of them. FOPA wouldn't apply, as I'd likely be stopping and spending at least a night in those States.
These are my questions:
Thank you in advance for any advice.
Best regards. mannydog.
I do 2 or 3 mid-distance to longer-distance rides (3k - 6k miles) a year on a motorcycle. I have MA LTC and both Florida and Utah non-resident carry permits. Bike is garaged in FL so I don't need to ride through 2A-hostile states in the Northeast.
I've considered Colorado, California, and a few other States that I might otherwise want to ride through as off-limits on past rides and I've stayed out of them. FOPA wouldn't apply, as I'd likely be stopping and spending at least a night in those States.
These are my questions:
- Would an FFL in an adjacent State to California, I'm thinking Nevada, let me "check" my firearm in with him and then allow me to retrieve it on my way back from CA?
- Is this a highly irregular practice that most reputable FFLs typically wouldn't want to be part of?
- Would the FFL be required to log the firearm into his books, as if it were a transfer, and then do the same upon my retrieval of the firearm?
- Would a local MA FFL need to contact and make an introduction on my behalf to an out-of-State FFL to make this work? (I'm certainly not going to just show up at some LGS in Nevada and ask them "can you hold onto this for me for a week?").
Thank you in advance for any advice.
Best regards. mannydog.