Shipping T/C Contender Frame

wizbanger

January 09, 2015 05:54

Can a T/C Contender Frame and buttstock be shipped USPS by a non-ffl?

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  RustyBones

  January 09, 2015 06:09

  Once a rifle, always a rifle, so yes you should be able to ship it USPS.

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  Cheechako

  January 09, 2015 07:34

  It still has to go to an FFL if you're sending it to another state. Assuming it is a rifle.

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  wizbanger

  January 09, 2015 08:05

  It is just a frame and buttstock, no barrel

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  Cheechako

  January 09, 2015 09:11

  quote:Originally posted by wizbanger
  It is just a frame and buttstock, no barrel
  
  
  Barrel type/buttstock make no difference. It's how the receiver is registered (pistol/rifle).

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  dfletcher

  January 09, 2015 11:18

  quote:Originally posted by Cheechako
  quote:Originally posted by wizbanger
  It is just a frame and buttstock, no barrel
  
  
  Barrel type/buttstock make no difference. It's how the receiver is registered (pistol/rifle).
  
  
  The old "once a rifle always a rifle" is as you've referenced no longer the case. A new firearm with a buttstock attached can be documented on the 4473 as "other" and assembled as a legally configured handgun, then to rifle and back to handgun. The same is not true for a new firearm 4473'd as a rifle.
  
  In this case, the T/C (and the same would be true for an AR with buttstock attached, but without a +16" upper) with buttstock and no barrel COULD BE assembled as a legally configured handgun. In fact, a person must be +21 to buy a stripped new AR receiver or receiver with buttstock attached, same applies to a new T/C Encore with buttstock and no barrel.
  
  In the eyes of USPS (meaning their rules, not just what someone working there thinks)since the stocked Contender with no barrel COULD BE assembled as a legally configured handgun it may be that one must (according to USPS) be an FFL dealer to ship. As a practical matter, if it is an older Contender (Mountain Lion, nice adjustable trigger) it was almost certainly documented via 4473 as a handgun, T/C didn't venture out into rifles all that long ago. But, if after its initial sale/4473 this firearm was bought used as a rifle, there's a 4473 showing it as a rifle.
  
  The easiest approach, it seems to me, is to use someone other than USPS and ship it as a rifle. When I've run into "we can't do that" with UPS or FedEx shipping a T/C frame, because they can't conceive that the tiny frame is actually a rifle, I've attached a rifle stock and then it "makes sense" to them - for them, "buttstock = rifle" and they've done the ship.

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  wizbanger

  January 09, 2015 15:16

  Thanks.

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  dcs shooters

  January 10, 2015 17:03

  quote:Originally posted by wizbanger
  Can a T/C Contender Frame and buttstock be shipped USPS by a non-ffl?
  
  
  Maybe, depends on your PO.
  FFL to FFL, yes. I send my AR lower about a year ago in a flat rate box

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