Rob Pincus

2014 PDN Training Tour Update 4/18

Rob Pincus
Duration:   3  mins

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Rob Pincus checks in from the edge of Washington, D.C. and talks about the difficulties in trying to legally transport firearms and magazines through the many states in the northeast that have severe restrictions. Rob shares the advice from his legal counsel and explains his plan. The PDN Training Tour also ran its first rifle course of the season this week, with students getting a chance to use the CMMG Tour Rifles!

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2 Responses to “2014 PDN Training Tour Update 4/18”

  1. leo breton

    no comment, but i do have a question.i live in r.i., a state with some of the toughest gun laws in the country, a state that has long been led by some of the most screwed up and corrupt politicians you will find anywhere on this entire planet. that being said, i was wondering if you know of the best way to ensure myself of getting a concealed carry permit in a state that is not easy to do that in.providence,r.i. has been refered to as the wild west lately, and rightly so. it is not too often we can get by a single week without seeing a shooting on the news.we have also had an incredible increase in home invasions in this state, and i"m talking even in great areas to live in.yet this state makes it harder than pulling teeth to get a carry permit. any helpfull advice will be greatly appreciated.

  2. Joseph

    Like how you point out that across the river different laws exist than where you are standing. Well state (or district of Columbia) rights have advantages and disadvantages, but I think in the long run an advantage rather than having everything centralized in the federal government. I am from NY but happy living down South with its laws.

All right, Rob Pincus here for Personal Defense Network. And this is the training tour update. The third one for 2014's training tour and I am in Alexandria, Virginia. And that means that just across the water over there behind the tour truck is our nation's capital, Washington, DC. And while I'm visiting Alexandria meeting with some friends and some business associates, I am literally, like, one wrong turn away from obviously being a test case.

There's a lot of gear inside of the truck that is completely legal here in Virginia but if I were to cross over into Washington, DC, if I were to try to spend the night there at any of the great hotels or have dinner at any of the great restaurants, I obviously would be in a lot of trouble. And that's unfortunate. And if you take a look at my blog, you'll see that I am about ready to do the Run the Gauntlet project. Ahoy up into new England, up the terrain in New Hampshire. And what I've got is a situation where we cannot transport a lot of the things that are inside the truck very easily through several of the states in the mid atlantic and northern region.

New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland. They all have restrictions. Now, the Firearms Owners Protection Act obviously means that I can transport those firearms from one place that I can use an own the guns to another place that I can use and own the guns. So Virginia to New Hampshire should be fine. But outside of the federal protection for firearms, the lawyers that I've consulted with have also raised the concern about two things.

One, there's precedent for arrests to be made even when someone then uses the affirmative defense of Firearms Owners Protection Act. I am protected and I'm transporting the firearms properly. And that means, you know, disassembled, locked in a compartment, in this case in a gun vault, Tack Vault, in the back of the tour truck. But arrests have still been made. And obviously I don't want to get arrested.

I don't want the tour truck to get impounded. I don't want my gear to be taken. So I've got that concern. That means I'm going to avoid certain States, like New Jersey. If I'm going to pass through New York, which I really have to at some point, there's also a concern about the magazines that are inside of the vehicle normally.

And in fact, those magazines are not specifically safe passage protected in the Firearms Owners Protection Act and that is a concern for my lawyers, my consultants. So what I'm actually going to do today, unfortunately, is pack up those magazines and ship them home to Ohio which is the next stop on the tour. Meanwhile, lots of good news. We're doing great classes, great training. Just left a great combat focus shooting class hosted by TEM Tactical Equipment at the Corrituck shooting range in North Carolina, right on the Virginia border.

I had some great classes last weekend in Georgia and I'm getting ready to head up to New Hampshire to do a course also, in Keene, at a great range up there. More about that next week. What we did get to do while we were in Georgia was run the first rifle course of the Personal Defense Network training tour. And that means I finally got to break out some of the loner guns and hand them to students from CMMG. CMMG manufacturing makes a great gun and they performed flawlessly.

We had one student use the gun through the whole course. We had another one whose gun went down, picked up one of the CMMG guns and had a great experience.

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