For the heck of it: Cardboard Boxes

[Waingro]

I know when traveling with a handgun it must be in a locked container in the trunk. Long gun locked container when near a school zone. Now this is my question: what exactly is a locked container?

I have seen soft cases that have plastic zippers that a 90lb woman can rip apart in under a minute.

If you got a cardboard box, put a whole though the 2 flaps and put a lock on it would that be considered a locked container?

It is a container and it is locked. Yet it can be gotten into in under 5 seconds.

Verdict?

[JeffM]

I know when traveling with a handgun it must be in a locked container in the trunk.

Trunk is a locked container.

[Waingro]

Trunk is a locked container.

We are in an SUV or a hatchback then. For the sake of this question.

[JeffM]

What kind of SUV?

[Patriot]

Even if there is no statutory requirement for permanence or durability, why be so blatant?

[JeffM]

If the SUV is a GM, then cardboard is not enough.

If the hatchback is a Honda, then too the cardboard is not enough.

Otherwise you should be fine.

[mike100]

Is it a recycled box? what's the burst rating? If you used a box cutter to get into it to check it in while catching a flight, what would you do with the box cutter?