Ship handgun to myself

[smokinyoda]

While on vacation in NV I plan to purchase a handgun for protection while roaming the deserts. I don't want to check it in my luggage when I return as I fear airlines will lose it.

Can I legally ship it to myself at my home address in NC without using a FFL? I do realize it has to go Fedex or UPS next day air.

I have read BATF guidelines stating you can ship firearms to yourself out of state for lawful purposes, but it does not specify whether handguns were or were not included.

 

[edwardware]

Legally, yes, but not practically. I don't believe any of the carriers will allow a non-licensee to ship a handgun to a non-licensee, yourself or not.

A more interesting question is how you're planning to obtain a handgun outside your state of residence.

 

[Hunter86004]

If you're buying a handgun outside of your state of residence, the dealer won't let you have it. He will be required to send it to a FFL in your state of residence.

 

[MedWheeler]

^^ These. If you don't live in Nevada, you cannot take possession of a handgun there. You couldn't even borrow one if you knew a lender.

You can buy it, but the dealer must hold it until you provided the address of a FFL in NC at which you can pick it up.

You're better off taking one out there with you. That's what I did when I used to go to New Mexico.

BTW, my mom, brother, and cousin are in Franklin. I get up there pretty much every year. I bring my gun, but I drive. Nice town.

 

[smokinyoda]

Well that sucks. Guess I will be checking one in my suitcase after all. They better not loose my luggage again!

 

[Rule3]

Well that sucks. Guess I will be checking one in my suitcase after all. They better not loose my luggage again!

If bringing your own gun and Assuming you have a CCW in your home state, you need to verify that Nevada will honor it. (you can look it up)

Also check with the airplanes as each have different hoops to jump through.

 

[Theohazard]

Just to be clear to the OP: Not only can a dealer not transfer you a handgun outside your state of residence, but federal law says you can’t do a private face-to-face firearm transfer outside your state of residence either. I figured I’d point this out before someone erroneously suggested you buy a handgun in NV on a private sale.

So there’s no legal way for you to receive a handgun when on vacation in another state and bring it back with you to your home state.

If you don't live in Nevada, you cannot take possession of a handgun there. You couldn't even borrow one if you knew a lender.

I don’t know about NV law, but federal law would allow him to borrow a handgun. There’s an exception under federal law for private transfers between residents of different states if that transfer is a “temporary loan for sporting purposes”. But as Frank Ettin has pointed out, if you take your borrowed gun back with you to your home state, it’s unlikely a court would see that as a “temporary loan”.

 

[Frank Ettin]

The OP's has his answer.