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triggerhappy2006

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I am going to be leaving active duty in the next couple months, and will be moving home. I have acquired a fairly large quantity of ammunition over the past 3 + years, and I was wondering what federal laws I would have to take into consideration while transporting these rounds back to my home state. I will be using a Uhaul box truck and will have the firearms locked in a safe in the back and the rounds locked in a separate safe in the back.
 
Ammunition....

I met a senior ATF special agent a few months ago in the NE area of Florida.
He told me flatly; "We do not care about ammunition."
If you can own or purchase the rounds legally, then it doesn't matter if you have 10 rounds or 10,000.
Now for security, Id use a few lockable cases or ammo cans & keep them away from moisture. ;)
If you want to be 100% sure, you may ask your local Provost Marshal's Office(PMO) or the military base's JAG(judge advocate general) office.
When you out-process(ETS), a legal affairs specialist or JAG lawyer may be able to answer your specific legal questions.

Clyde
PS; as noted before on TFL, good gun/travel resources are www.handgunlaw.us www.nra.org www.gunlawguide.com .
 
I'd not ask on the way out. I'd not draw attention to it. It wouldn't be any problem so long as your travels were not through states restricting your possession of the guns or ammo.
 
Be sure and put your own lock on the truck door, and always park it in front of your motel room. Get a Club and use it on the steering wheel and disconnect the battery terminal each night.

Seriously. Theft of moving vans is not uncommon.

Don't advertise to others you're carrying guns and ammo, if anyone asks, tell them the truck is empty or contains 42 cases of shampoo, and you're returning it in the morning.
 
Plan your route well as to not cross any secure areas that prohibit moving vans without inspection. They can be a hassle and waste of a lot of time explaining.
 
A rented H-Haul box is a consumer rental vehicle, that doesn't require a CDL to operate. (U-Haul doesn't rent trucks that cross into the CDL-required size category.) As such, is it considered a "moving van" under the law? I have moved myself several times and helped to move any number of friends, and I've never heard anyone suggest that the trucks are "moving vans."
 
Don't ask, don't tell....

I served four years on active duty & the last 30+ mo were in VA(military police).
I, for one, wouldn't go by the "ask your buddy" or "don't ask" policy.
Our MP station's SGT Major(the highest ranking enlisted soldier) went on to be the post CSM(Command Sgt Major). He was very 2A/pro gun & even led the effort to set up a target range for soldiers & family members to shoot weapons(private ownership).

Some service members & commanders are anti-gun but most either don't care or they'd just ask that the rounds are not stolen/loss prevention from a arms room/armory.

What many people in the general public may not know is that thefts/asset protection is a common problem with many US military installations.
Vehicles, computers, weapons, spare parts, ammunition, etc can be swiped & not reported missing for months or even years. :rolleyes:
New supply & logistics systems help but there are still big gaps.
 
Some of us here are lawyers. Some of us are not. I'm one of the nots. Even then, the ones who are the are's will tell you they couldn't tell you for sure, and at best can give you a most-likely-probably-I-suspsect-it-tends-to-be answer, and that you get what you pay for.

The firearms themselves are at least partially covered under FOPA.
Stopping for the night may or may not invalidate FOPA-
It's not leaning a direction you or I would appreciate.

Most states do not regulate ammunition.
The ones that do are uncommon enough few of us could name them.
Even fewer of us could name what the limits are.
 
Us & them...

As I posted, if you can legally purchase or possess firearm ammunition you should have no problems.
If you are trying to "sneak out" with cases or pallets of US milspec(Lake City Arsenel) rounds(9mmNATO, 7.62mm, 5.56mm, .50BMG) then someone might ask what you are doing. :rolleyes:

Years ago, a MP Sgt in my unit who deployed to Just Cause in Panama(Dec of 1989) "found" a set of US Army NVGs(night vision googles) while in Panama City. When he returned to his US duty station, the US Army CID(Criminal Investigation Div or CIDC) was on his case about the high value item(s). :rolleyes:

Clyde
 
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