NavyLCDR, Please don't let me stop you from doing whatever it is that you think best for yourself. It's not going to make any difference, whatsoever, to me and mine.
Years ago one of these gung-ho gun forum nitwits got himself taken down in a mall parking lot in my, then NJ, hometown. Know what the idiot did? He was walking around the mall wearing an empty holster. (His idea of protesting NJ's strict firearms laws.) One of the sheeple called; the police showed up in force, and he was cuffed at gunpoint. Ultimately, he got, somewhat, lucky and wasn't arrested.
The police gave him a summons for disturbing the peace, instead; and, when he went to court, the judge he had to appear before told the jerk that if he ever did anything stupid like that again while inside his jurisdiction, he'd find him guilty of making terroristic threats and, possibly, inciting to riot! His first time up he only got a, somewhat expensive, fine. The sad part is that I had warned him not to do it; but, as usual with these, 'patriots' he didn't listen, and had to find out the hard way. (It's a free country - Right!)
I should tell you the story of what the New Jersey State Police did to my former auto mechanic and his wife after they were pulled over while on the way to his parents' house, one Thanksgiving. Ever been stripped searched? He made an honest mistake; and what a $30,000.00 dollar oversight that turned out to be! (Not to mention the criminal record he still has to get expunged. His lawyer, alone, took $18,000.00 in order to, more or less, get him out of that one!
Then there is my former business associate from New Hampshire. He didn't understand that you can't just transport hollow point ammunition around with you while you're visiting New Jersey. The judge in this one fined him $1,000.00 dollars per hollow point found in his possession. (The lawyer gave him a break, though, and only charged him $6,000.00.)
(Like I said, though, I really don't care whatever it might be that you decide to do.)