I will be traveling from CO into and through NE this summer. The wife and I will be doing a fun shoot for family kids in NE (parents will shoot also). Then we will swing up to SD to spend time with wife's brother and do some shooting with him.

We will have an assortment of .22 rifles for the kids (6 or 7), for shooting with the BIL we will have a few pistols and an AR.

Pertinent factors:
We both have CCW permits (which NE honors).
We will most likely be driving a one ton van, if I can whittle down the load there is an outside chance we'll be in a Subaru Outback.
The firearms cannot be stored in a separate compartment. Back of the van or Outback
With all the bullshit surrounding weed traffic outbound from CO I'm paranoid about getting pulled over and having my shit spread out by the interstate. I'll also be teaching my BIL to reload and I'll be carrying primers, powder, bullets, reloading tools and of course ammo.

Please don't think I'm nuts or a cop hater (12 years volunteer with the El Paso County SO). I've had it happen to a friend and myself. Years ago I used to coach Junior Team shooters at the Olympic Training Center here in the springs and personally knew most of our Olympic shooters. I had been out for a day at the range with one of the National Team shooters. Side Note: National Team shooters get smokin' deals from the big gun companies. This guy had a LOT of NICE guns and we had several with us. Cop pulls us over because this guy from Oregon had Oregon plates on his car, and the cops were enhancing revenue from people that had moved to the Springs without re-plating their cars.

This guy's plates and license are current. He hands the cop his National Team ID, his Olympic Training Center ID and drivers license and registration. Cop can see gun cases on the back seat, so out they come, to be spread out in the grass by the city street in the drizzling rain. While the cop takes his sweet time to run EVERY serial number. I was more pissed than my buddy.

Questions regarding transportation in a van or small what ever the hell an Outback is:
Do long guns need to be in locked cases?
Do hand guns not carried concealed need to be in locked cases?
Anything about ammo I need to know other than it ought not to be in the rifles?

I'm going to cross post this in the NE Hometown Forum.

Thanks for your help.

Vic.

 
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If you have CO plates I'd say there's a good chance you'll be profiled. I would politely decline any requests to search.


As far as the guns go, "guns" isn't a dirty word in SD like it is in some other states. I would think if you explain what's up you wouldn't have any problems.

It takes quite a bit here to get in trouble.

Just wear pants and dont let the cop see your open bud in the cup holder