I need some help shipping gun powder.

Here is the situation...

I have a friend in CA who has about 25 lbs of various gun powders. He wants to ship them to me as I do all the reloading for both of us.

Who can a private citizen use to ship gun powder from one person to another?? From California to Maine....

I know the post office won't do it.

UPS? Fed Ex??

Thanks for your help.

Honkey:

I had this same problem. Jeffeosso was running low on his favorite powder and I found an eight pound container of Ramshot TAC for him. However, I was never able to ship it down to him. A private citizen can ship loaded ammunition if it is properly marked and it must travel by ground but you cannot ship smokeless powder via UPS of FedEx without a special license and it is indeed a "special" license. My local gun store couldn't ship it. I even went out to the local Hornaday plant and they could not ship it for me either. Now, I know some guys get around this by boxing it up and telling the shipper that it is ammunition but I just didn't want to take the risk.

If you want to ship it, you either have to find someone who has a license to ship smokeless powder or be willing to break the law by lying to the shipper about what's in the package.

Try here:

UPS Hazardous Materials Support Center at 1-800-554-9964

Ray

UPS only accepts hazmat by contract. FedEx will accept hazmat, but you have to have a DOT license.

You cannot package/label the powder yourself and ship it unless you are licensed by the DOT. You're going to have to find someone licensed willing to do that for you. I don't know if there is a service that can do that for you, I kind of looked and can't seem to find one.

Just find some one that can relay it to a buddy part of the way across country.
Basically make your powder like a hitchhiker or the pony express.
Once it reaches a buddy that buddy can contact someone else traveling that can get it to one of his buddies. It might take a few weeks but it should be do able with enough buddies.

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Just find some one that can relay it to a buddy part of the way across country.

Know any truckers or traveling salesman going that way?

How tight are the bus lines? It was a long time ago, but someone my brother knew shipped a case of PE by bus.