SW Feature Tip Revolver repair

[Jim Watson]

Not realy. The person tendering a package for shipment is the shipper. Who paid for the label is irrelevant. If S&W provides a label for a nonlicensee to use UPS or FedEx, then they are on the hook if UPS/FedEx seizes the shipment for violating their terms of service.

Then Fedurps is apparently CHOOSING to let S&W issue labels and call tags.
My conspiracy theory is that they were jawboned into making things inconvenient for gun owners but are accepting the company label to get the business anyhow. Kind of like the tobacco industry; they are paying off on tobacco aggravated disease claims but they are also still paying taxes, so they continue as a regulated vice.

 

[dogtown tom]

Then Fedurps is apparently CHOOSING to let S&W issue labels and call tags.

I don't doubt that S&W is wholly and completely ignorant of the changes to FedEx and UPS policies. They just doing what they've done for years. If the shipment is seized, S&W would just replace the firearm. Nothing in FedEx/UPs policies seems to allow exemptions, so I'll bet if an exemption were made for S&W it would be in their contract with the carrier.

My conspiracy theory is that they were jawboned into making things inconvenient for gun owners...

Ya think?
https://www.americas1stfreedom.org/content/ups-further-clamps-down-on-firearms-shipments/

......The latest changes, along with the earlier decision on shipping gun parts, are likely a result of a strongly worded letter sent on May 19 to UPS, Federal Express, the U.S. Postal Service, and trucking and rail carriers by five anti-gun U.S. senators blaming shipping companies for playing a part in the country’s criminal violence problem. The letter, signed by Democrat Sens. Edward Markey (Mass.), Corey Booker (N.J.), Chris Murphy (Conn.), Richard Blumenthal (Conn.), and Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), stated, “We are concerned that lax shipping security measures are contributing to the epidemic of gun violence in this country by allowing criminals to use stolen firearms to commit crimes.”