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What are the regulations if you are unhappy with a firearm/rifle after the inspection period and want to return it to the seller. In this case a gun store. I am getting the run a round from UPS and my local post office is trying to help but this is new ground for them. Will I have these same difficulties when shipping to a gunsmith? I sent a shotgun to Cole Guns in Maine a few years back {after 911} and did not run in to the road block from UPS. Thanks | ||
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As long as the party you are shipping the rifle to holds a valid FFL, you can legally ship it to them. I can't believe shipping a firearm is "new ground" for your post office. Well, on second thought, can I believe it. The post office has a book of regulations, someone in the post office can easily find the regulations (if they want to). Hmm, maybe the Postmaster? Ya think? | |||
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I agree but if they don't want help your stuck. UPS will ship it if I drive 40 miles one way to their center to drop off the package. Some excuss about a computer generated label. I ask why couldn't the driver bring it when the box is pick up. I believe that is what happen when I ship a gun to Coles. No impossible. Might fall in to the wrong hands while I am handing the driver the box and the label is being attached. She was very polite. | |||
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The USPS can ship long guns. I usually take the barreled action out of the stock, wrap that and the stock seperately and then put them both in a box with plenty of shipping peanuts for pad. If a person/company can leagally recieve a long gun, then it is legal for you to ship it to them. Most of the time postal workers don't know it is OK to ship a long gun. Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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You can go to UPS.com and open your own account. The shipping gets charged to credit card, you print your own label and schedule a pick up at your address. | |||
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I have had the same experience here in Dallas. I had to drive across town bypassing several UPS stores on the way. It's just the way it is. Your only other option is to get someone with an FFL to do it for you. | |||
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post office will do a better job much cheaper than UPS with long gun | |||
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The post office doesn't ask you what's in the box, even when you insure it. It is prefectly legal even if the clerk doesn't know what's in the box. ACGG Life Member, since 1985 | |||
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If you have a simple "Ship when needed" account with UPS, they don't ask either. With USPS, unless you send it "registered", you won't be able to insure the package for more than $500.00. _______________________________________________________________________________ This is my rifle, there are many like it but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend, it is my life. | |||
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Not true.. If I recall correctly the insurance limit is $8000 and has been for several years. "Isn't it pretty to think so." | |||
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FWIW - I've shipped rifles via USPS registered mail that were insured for over 20K and have not run into the 8K limit. | |||
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Don't know what to tell you but I am only going by what my computer screen say's when linked to theirs. Using the "click and ship" w/insurance option for a priority package, a little box appears and say's $500.00 limit. They will insure it up to $25,000.00 if it is shipped "registered". http://www.usps.com/insurance/welcome.htm Okay, just back from the website. If you purchase the insurance on line, the limit is $500.00. If you purchase it at the counter, the limit is $5,000. Registered is still $25,000.00. _______________________________________________________________________________ This is my rifle, there are many like it but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend, it is my life. | |||
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Don't need to tell me anything.  I retired from 32 years with the USPS in 2005. 19 1/2 of them as a window clerk, lead clerk, window trainer ,time keeper and finance technician in a level 22 1st class Post Office. I was the guy who translated the regulations for the Window Clerks. Unlike some P.O.s I insisted that my clerks did things correctly. And they did. Registered mail can be insured for up to $25000 in cash value. For an additional fee per $1000 you can register for millions. The extra fee covers special handling and security, and in some extreme cases, if the indemnity is high enough, armed guards. Standard insurance on any parcel is available up to $5000, not $8000 as I stated previously. I just verified it with my replacement at my old office. I have encountered several discrepencies on the Postal web site. It happens when you have computer pilots doing things instead of the hands on people who should be doing it. "Isn't it pretty to think so." | |||
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Westpac, It's possible that the USPS has a lower limit for items done via click n ship. Their reasoning being for high value items they may want to "see" the package. Mike Legistine actu quod scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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Thanks Mike. That's what I figured when I went back to look. _______________________________________________________________________________ This is my rifle, there are many like it but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend, it is my life. | |||
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