Getting ready to move ... what to do with firearms

This. The TSA and the airlines publish their rules on line. They are very similar to each other, but the airlines sometimes have slightly different rules on ammunition.

Use a good quality firearms case, use NON TSA approved locks. At the airport you'll have to declare the guns at the ticket counter and fill out a firearms declaration card (Orange Card). Make sure that the completed card goes inside the case. That's for cases that are not going into suitcases, which I expect you won't be doing with long guns.

Then you'll hand the case off to the airline. You might be asked to hang around for a few minutes in case TSA wants to open the case. They don't care about the guns themselves, but once in a while a case will set off an alert going through Xray.

I've flown with handguns and long guns over a dozen times and it's actually pretty easy. TN doesn't, to my knowledge, require a permit for mere possession, just for concealed carry. From my travel there, it's a very 2A friendly state.

I don't know that moving companies will transport firearms or ammunition and I'm sure that I wouldn't trust them if they did.

 

Well, that problem solved itself!