I have to travel to Chicago in the near future and want to check on some things.
I know that it is now legal to carry concealed within your vehicle as long as you are legally allowed to do so in your home state and leave it locked in your vehicle if you exit it. I know that possession of an unloaded, cased, and not readily accessible firearm is legal as long as you have an FOID and that non-resident's carry licenses can be substituted for a FOID in this case. The recent state preemption laws removed many of the crappy possession laws that Chicago had.
Does anyone know of any possible legal issues with this scenario:
I just want to double check that transporting it to and from the hotel in this manner is legal in Chicago for those without a badge or baggy pants and colors.
Which of these options do you like best?
I know that it is now legal to carry concealed within your vehicle as long as you are legally allowed to do so in your home state and leave it locked in your vehicle if you exit it. I know that possession of an unloaded, cased, and not readily accessible firearm is legal as long as you have an FOID and that non-resident's carry licenses can be substituted for a FOID in this case. The recent state preemption laws removed many of the crappy possession laws that Chicago had.
Does anyone know of any possible legal issues with this scenario:
- Carry while driving to Chicago
- Upon arrival (while still in vehicle), unload pistol, put in lockbox inside a backpack
- Carry backpack a few blocks to hotel
- Leave pistol locked in case while in hotel
- Get the h*** out of the crime ridden cesspool as fast as possible the next morning in the same manner
I just want to double check that transporting it to and from the hotel in this manner is legal in Chicago for those without a badge or baggy pants and colors.
Which of these options do you like best?
- Leave pistol locked in car. I have a lock box bolted to the inside of a large well under the seats where it slides and locks into a bracket that is bolted to the car. The car will be in a parking garage downtown.
- Transport it unloaded, in lockbox, in backpack a few blocks to the hotel.
- Drop my wife off at the hotel first and have her take the backpack to the room while I go park.
- Disassemble and put the slide in the backpack and put the receiver in my pocket where it is less likely to get stolen.
- Leave the pistol at home
- Leave myself and my wife at home (just kidding, I can't get out of this).
- OC it with an extended 30rnd magazine, sling an AR-15 outfitted with a DIAS and a 100rnd mag over my shoulder and walk down Michigan Ave to the hotel holding both my middle fingers to the air while chanting "suck it Obama".
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