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RoyGBiv wrote:I would not bring my gun to California.
I would ,if possible ,not bring my family to California.

Buena suerte amigo

I just got back from there at 12:30am Saturday morning. One word of caution....watch what you eat. My wife and I have both been stricken with some kind of gastroenteritis accompanied by LW grade fevers. Pretty sure it is some thing we ate, since we both became symptomatic right at the same time.

Now about guns.... That was my post that you quoted up top. Whenever I fly to California, I just leave the guns at home. We can't carry there, and we can't have a loaded gun in the vehicle we rent, I have no confidence in airline personnel in California to deal with firearms declarations professionally, and I'm not sure that I trust hotel housekeeping not to steal it. So, there's not much point in bringing a gun on the flight.

However, when I drive to California, I carry. I bring either a .357 revolver or a 1911, and my wife brings her Kahr CW9, so that there will be no confusion about the gun's legality. On the way there, we always stop at the In 'n Out in Kingman, buy lunch, and disarm and lock up the guns in their cases since the border is just a few more miles down the road. On the way home, we always stop at a rest area just inside of Arizona right after you pass through Needles and cross the Colorado river. There, we re-arm and proceed.

We are both gray-haired and non-threatening in appearance. I could PROBABLY get away with carrying and never get caught. But the price of getting caught is too high, so I don't.

I lived in California for most of my life until moving to Texas in 2006. I have no plans to return there again until my mother passes. This recent trip there was probably my last until then.