Monkeybear
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First off let me say; I hope that I am posting this in the right place.
I am shipping my first gun soon, and as such I have been reading heavily about it. Often in threads, even here on this board, I have come across the someone saying something along the lines of
"You don't have to tell them its a gun, its just a FedEx/UPS policy"
or
"Just don't tell them"
A lot of my reading on the forums about shipping firearms via Fedex/UPS has left me with the notion that I am not legally obligated to inform the carrier verbally that I am shipping a firearm. I have found evidence that this is not the case
Item B8 states
"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."
Regardless of whether or not we agree we are legally in the wrong if we do not inform the carrier that the contents of our parcel is a firearm. I would hate for someone to get themselves into trouble if they, as I, were to get the wrong idea from reading any number of firearm shipping threads in the forums. I would also like to be corrected if wrong.
Thanks,
Monkeybear
I am shipping my first gun soon, and as such I have been reading heavily about it. Often in threads, even here on this board, I have come across the someone saying something along the lines of
"You don't have to tell them its a gun, its just a FedEx/UPS policy"
or
"Just don't tell them"
A lot of my reading on the forums about shipping firearms via Fedex/UPS has left me with the notion that I am not legally obligated to inform the carrier verbally that I am shipping a firearm. I have found evidence that this is not the case
Item B8 states
"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."
Regardless of whether or not we agree we are legally in the wrong if we do not inform the carrier that the contents of our parcel is a firearm. I would hate for someone to get themselves into trouble if they, as I, were to get the wrong idea from reading any number of firearm shipping threads in the forums. I would also like to be corrected if wrong.
Thanks,
Monkeybear