I live in VA and have VA/MD CCW permit. My question is when traveling with a passenger that may have a felony, am I now breaking a law because my firearm is on my person?
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Good question. Welcome to the community. We have second amendment rights. I would think if a felon doesnât have access to your firearm everything is copacetic.
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Securely and fully in your control - youâre good to go.
Welcome to the community!
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Welcome to the community, Sean!
Your rights to legally carry a weapon are not modified by the lack of rights of any passengers in your vehicle. It is your weapon. Maintain positive control of your weapon and you wonât have any issues.
The only way that youâd be in trouble in this scenario is if you willingly allowed a known felon to possess a weapon.
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Great question, Sean!
Generally speaking, I would agree with the other commenters. Especially if your felon passenger doesnât know that you are packing (Which may actually matter, if it ever becomes an issue).
However, as with most other things, If it is a real concern for you I suggest you get a qualified legal opinion from someone that knows the climate in your immediate area.
For example, I live in rural Illinois, and actually know my local Sheriff and his policy leanings casually. And I would not have any concerns about your scenario in my local area. However, if I were to have the same scenario in Chicago (or more accurately âCrook Countyâ), all bets would be off. Yes, I may eventually win my court cases years down the road. If I didnât go bankrupt first, and have my entire life destroyed in the process.
So just my 0.02.
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You can live with a felon and still be allowed to own firearms so traveling with one should not be an issue.
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Off topic, but the DC permit is not that much beyond the MD permit if you are in that part of MD/VA/DC. I donât have a DC permit, but when I took the MD class it was something like an additional hour of training to qualify for the DC permit (plus the DC fee.) of course, one cannot carry in the areas of DC I like to visit so there was no point for me to get it.
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Nobody likes to go to DC unless they work there. Every time I am in Virginia I have people asking me if I want to go to DC, and I say the same thing every time. Been there once, saw the monuments to real Americans, no reason for me to go back and give money to DC when my tax dollars are already funding a bunch of losers who should not be allowed to manage a lemonade stand let alone a country.
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lol! Sorry. Just struck me as funny. 
the family and I have been there several times this year. The cherry blossoms were stunning this spring. Trying to arrange a White House tour for Thanksgiving to see it decorated for Christmas.
Sorry to the OP for taking your thread off topic.
@Papa_Zed appreciate the friendly banter.
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@Sean194 Welcome to the community! Great question, maybe youâd be putting yourself in a sticky situation (knowingly or unknowingly) when traveling with a passenger that may have a felony if something came up involving a LEO, letâs say a traffic stop. Why risk it. Thatâs if you are driving your personal vehicle with felon passenger (simply giving him/her a ride somewhere). You did not specify, so itâs not known if you, in your traveling, are a passenger as well in commuting along with a felon friend passenger, or a (unknown) passenger that âmay have a felonyâ, and by what means are you traveling when traveling with a passenger. Are you traveling in a bus, train, subway, taxi, uber, or are you a driver (businesswise) transporting a passenger. Just be the âGREY MANâ, you have a valid CCW and NO ONE ELSE NEEDS TO KNOW but you. No one will even notice. UNLESS, you and the passenger know each other 
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