What Changes at State Lines When You Travel?

If you're transporting firearms across state lines, the magazine restrictions of every state you pass through technically apply to you -- not just your destination. There is no federal safe harbor law that protects magazine possession in the same way the **Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986** provides some protection for firearm transport.

What the Courts Are Doing Right Now?

This area of law is genuinely unsettled. Multiple cases are working through the federal court system, and the *Bruen* decision from the Supreme Court (2022) changed the constitutional test for evaluating these laws -- which is why you're seeing previously upheld laws getting struck down on remand.

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