First Out of State Carry!

[cmort666]

I was unexpectedly able to go hunting in Missouri last week (got back at 5:00am this morning!) and lawfully carried out of state for the first time. Carried all the way through Ohio and Indiana. Had to disarm before crossing the Hell-Annoy border, then rearmed after crossing into Missouri. I think we managed (by design) not to spend any money in Illinois.

 

[cmort666]

I was unexpectedly able to go hunting in Missouri last week (got back at 5:00am this morning!) and lawfully carried out of state for the first time. Carried all the way through Ohio and Indiana. Had to disarm before crossing the Hell-Annoy border, then rearmed after crossing into Missouri. I think we managed (by design) not to spend any money in Illinois.

 

[Erich]

Well done, amigo! Particularly the solid roll through IL . . . .

 

[cmort666]

Originally posted by Erich:
Well done, amigo! Particularly the solid roll through IL . . . .

Apart from a computer course years ago, I haven't spent much time in Indiana. I went to college in Missouri, however, and (apart from a few numbskulls) they're some of the nicest people you'll meet.

 

[flop-shank]

Originally posted by Erich:
Well done, amigo! Particularly the solid roll through IL . . . .

+1. That's a state that can plan on seeing none of my money. Even when shopping and given a choice of a product made in a gun friendly state and one that isn't, I'll buy the product from the progun state every time.

 

[dennis40x]

The trips from North Carolina to Pennsylvania were nettlesome when West Virginia did not have a reciprocity agreement with North Carolina. North Carolina has substantial number of reciprocity agreements with other states. We've come along way from what use to be but need to go further.

 

[uncle norman]

Originally posted by cmort666:

Originally posted by Erich:
Well done, amigo! Particularly the solid roll through IL . . . .

Apart from a computer course years ago, I haven't spent much time in Indiana. I went to college in Missouri, however, and (apart from a few numbskulls) they're some of the nicest people you'll meet.

+2 When traveling west I stop to whiz and flush the toilet in Illinois then rearm in Missouri where I gas up and get some food. They deserve my money. Unfortunately, usually coming back it's late night and I don't like my weapon unloaded and locked in a case under the floor board of my Grand Caravan with the ammo in the very back. I always stop at the first rest stop on I-64 in Indiana and rearm. I'm not walking into a dark house late at night.

 

[cmort666]

Originally posted by uncle norman:

Originally posted by cmort666:

Originally posted by Erich:
Well done, amigo! Particularly the solid roll through IL . . . .

Apart from a computer course years ago, I haven't spent much time in Indiana. I went to college in Missouri, however, and (apart from a few numbskulls) they're some of the nicest people you'll meet.

+2 When traveling west I stop to whiz and flush the toilet in Illinois then rearm in Missouri where I gas up and get some food. They deserve my money. Unfortunately, usually coming back it's late night and I don't like my weapon unloaded and locked in a case under the floor board of my Grand Caravan with the ammo in the very back. I always stop at the first rest stop on I-64 in Indiana and rearm. I'm not walking into a dark house late at night.

I waited quite a while to get my CHL, fortunately until after it was legal to carry in the Ohio rest areas. If there's ANY place I'd want to carry a gun, it's at one of those small rest stops. You see some folks at those that look like they just walked out of "The Hills Have Eyes". I remember stopping at those with friends when they were helping me move from Fremont to Cleveland before there was CCW in Ohio and I didn't like being unarmed one bit. I used to know a woman in usenet who got approached at one in another state, by a man carrying a length of rope who talked about them having "a good time". She pulled her gun and he took off.

 

[Wyatt Earp]

cmort, I have noticed that the NO CCW signs are still on bathroom and shelter doors in the rest stops I pass by on I 75. They are there even though they are not enforceable after SB 184 became law on 9/9.

Unfortunately, a trooper is probably going to arrest anyone carrying just because the sign in there. So I drafted a letter to the ODOT General Counsel (cc ODOT Director) informing them of the facts and requesting that all signs be removed ASAP. My attorney is reviewing my legal arguments for accuracy. When he's OK with the letter, it goes.

A similar one goes to my county prosecutor (he is legal counsel to the county government) because many county parking lots are still signed as no CCW. This parking lot issue, in fact, should have been a setteled matter in 2005 due to AG Opinion 2005-15. Now that the law is clear, there is no excuse.

It pisses me off to no end to watch the executive branches of government piss on the law when it applies to them.

 

[cmort666]

Originally posted by Wyatt Earp:
cmort, I have noticed that the NO CCW signs are still on bathroom and shelter doors in the rest stops I pass by on I 75. They are there even though they are not enforceable after SB 184 became law on 9/9.

Unfortunately, a trooper is probably going to arrest anyone carrying just because the sign in there. So I drafted a letter to the ODOT General Counsel (cc ODOT Director) informing them of the facts and requesting that all signs be removed ASAP. My attorney is reviewing my legal arguments for accuracy. When he's OK with the letter, it goes.

A similar one goes to my county prosecutor (he is legal counsel to the county government) because many county parking lots are still signed as no CCW. This parking lot issue, in fact, should have been a setteled matter in 2005 due to AG Opinion 2005-15. Now that the law is clear, there is no excuse.

It pisses me off to no end to watch the executive branches of government piss on the law when it applies to them.

There's a guy on the Ohioans for Concealed Carry forums who's recently done a lot of work in this regard, talking to the state about that very issue. He seems to slowly be getting results. I encourage you to check out the website.

 

[uncle norman]

I've been leary of rest stops for a long time, since a local woman turned up missing and they found her car in a rest stop parking lot in Tennessee. They found her body in the adjacent woods a couple weeks later. She had been raped and strangled.

 

[MTKTM]

There have been numerous homicides at rest areas over the years, all over the country. I often will stop and sleep in my vehicle when on a long road trip, and never go unarmed.