Highlights from a long story: I'm living in California and looking for a pickup. My dad, who lives finds one in MN for a good price and I buy it. I drive it out to Ca. and buy a trailer in Ca. to load up belongings in order to move to MN.
While in Ca. I lose the front plate when a traffic cone gets thrown up into my pickup. I have family in MN go to the license bureau the get replacements. My family mailed the replacements to me. I put the replacement plates on pickup, load up trailer and drive to MN. Trailer has Ca plates. I make to MN without incident.
Now it's time for plate renewal so I go to license bureau. I didn't receive the renewal notice so I don't have any paperwork, but no big deal, they can look it up based on the plate number. Except there was no record of that plate ever being given out.
I drove 2200 miles in a pickup with invalid MN plates, towing a trailer, with CA plates, jammed full of personal possessions. Only had 15 guns with a couple of thousand rounds of ammo in the trailer. I did have one pisol in a locked contained in the pickup cab. I wonder how long I would have been detained while that was sorted out.