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Walk It Through: The Handgun

A permit or an exception, unloaded and cased to the range, and a minimum of 30 days.

An adult who owns a handgun wants to start carrying it away from home.

Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.

One owner and one handgun. Repeat convictions, training exemptions, and protective orders are not worked through here.

A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.

Words this turns on

Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.