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GUN SHIPPING LAWS

Josser
On the website here it states a federal law A nonlicensee may ship a firearm by carrier to a resident of his or her own state or to a licensee in any state. A common or contract carrier must be used to ship a handgun. In addition, Federal law requires that the carrier be notified that the shipment contains a firearm and prohibits common or contract carriers from requiring or causing any label to be placed on any package indicating that it contains a firearm. [18 U. S. C. 922( a)( 2)( A) and 922( e), 27 CFR 178.31]

I just spoke to my Local Gun Shop here in Orlando Fl that does not do shipping and they said that was wrong, that I had to use an FFL shipper here to go to another FFL shipper.They said I could get in trouble if I didn't use an FFL shipper from here to ship. Live in Florida. Is that true? Does anybody know? Thanks, Jerry
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  • mark christian
    The shop owner is wrong so far as the regulations are concerned, in nearly every case a non licensee can ship to a dealer. There are state laws such as those in New York State which insist that handguns be shipped FFL-FFL. The problem is that many dealers just won't accept firearms shipments unless the guns come from another dealer. The only thing that you can do is to make sure well in advance that the dealer receiving your firearm will accept the shipment from you without an FFL. You can bang you head against the wall and send out 100 excerpts from the firearms regulations, but if a dealer does not want to accept a firearm from a non licensee you cannot force him to do it. Don't ship the gun until you know what will happen on the other end because if the dealer won't accept the gun it can end up as a real mess.
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  • Josser
    Thanks for the info Mark, now that makes good sense. Probably will just send here through a gun shop so there are no problems, Jerry
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