While I am considering using an FFL to ship, it is not my pistol, so it is not a transfer
Just because it was for "safekeeping" doesn't make it any less of a transfer in the eyes of the ATF. No money has to exchange hands in order for it to be considered a transfer.
The long and short: 18 USC 922 does not require you to notify common carriers
If this is true, why does ATF allow you to ship a firearm to yourself at someone elses address? You can ship a firearm "Care Of" some buddy in another state so you can pick it up when you arrive. Hunters frequently do this instead of travelling with their firearms.
it's still an interstate transfer of a firearm between two private parties.
There are no FEDERAL laws against non-FFL holders selling and/or shipping guns to each other directly. Things get stickier when one of the parties is a FFL holder.
She could do that, or she could check it in her luggage in accordance with TSA and airline procedures.I'm guessing she can wait until the next time she goes to visit him and ship it back to herself overnight.
That would work too.Otherwise, if she wants it now, she's going to have to have him ship it to her via an FFL?
it's still an interstate transfer of a firearm between two private parties.
Hkmp5sd said:I disagree. It would be interesting for an official ATF response.
Hkmp5sd said:Yea, I know that part by heart. The question was this: If person #1 stores a firearm with person #2 and leaves the state, can person #2 then ship the firearm person #1 in his home state? Ownership doesn't change and ATF allows a person to ship a firearm to himself. Does that apply here or not? I know they allow a person to box up a firearm, leave it at a friends house and then have the friend give it to a shipper at a later date.
Could person #1 send person #2 a self addressed box, have person #2 place the firearm in the box and give the box to a shipper? That should meet the requirement of shipping to yourself.