Carrying a firearm in American Samoa
What state law requires, and what federal law adds on top of it. Every fact below shows where it came from and how far we have verified it.
Check a specific address on the map →- Permit required to carry concealed
- Not yet established. We do not guess this field.
- Duty to inform law enforcement
- Not yet established for this state.
- Permits American Samoa recognises
- We have not yet ingested American Samoa's published recognition list. That is a gap in our data, not a statement that it recognises nothing.
- Restricted areas mapped in this state
- Federal school zones (1,000 ft)29
The federal layer applies regardless
Federal law bars possession within 1,000 ft of a school, and the exemption requires a licence issued by the state the school sits in — a permit American Samoa merely honours through reciprocity does not satisfy it. Carrying permitlessly satisfies it even less, because there is no licence at all. This is the trap that catches travellers who correctly concluded their permit was good here.
18 U.S.C. § 922(q)(2)