Anyone familiar with postal regulations for shipping longarms?

[AntiqueWeapons.org]

I need a statute/regulation that's in the postal rules or whatever to quote to the stupid clerk at the post office in Podunk, Texas whom is refusing to ship an antique longarm. This clerk told seller that was shipping to me that he can not ship without an FFL, for an antique.

So now seller who lives in Podunk will drive miles to UPS & hopefully not encounter issue with them, or worse case scenario will end up going from FFL to FFL at unneccesary expense & paperwork just to log it out as "Inadvertent entry".

Just a bit miffed that they would not ship. I've shipped & recieved antique longarms via postal service before.. Has anything changed in the last month?

 

[Pilgrim]

any longarm can be shipped via USPS., not just antiques.

sorry don't have the reg.

 

[JonJ]

http://www.usps.com/cpim/ftp/pubs/pub52.htm

 

[AntiqueWeapons.org]

Cool.. he don't have to drive to UPS, they're coming to his house to pick up.

The hell with the post office.

 

[Adam_MA]

worse case scenario will end up going from FFL to FFL at unneccesary expense & paperwork just to log it out as "Inadvertent entry"

The thought of dealing with an FFL make you nervous?

 

[drgrant]

So now seller who lives in Podunk will drive miles to UPS & hopefully not encounter issue with them, or worse case scenario will end up going from FFL to FFL at unneccesary expense & paperwork just to log it out as "Inadvertent entry".

If it's not a "firearm" as defined by GCA68 I don't think any FFL would ever
have to put it in their logbook, period. There would be no "inadvertant
entry" as the gun is not a Title I firearm by federal definition. You would
only be using the FFL to effect shipment and it wouldn't really be conducted
as a transfer, since the gun is functionally unregulated.

-Mike

 

[AntiqueWeapons.org]

The thought of dealing with an FFL make you nervous?

Not one bit, but paying seller $25 extra to have his ffl ship then paying mine another $25 to accept shipment means another $50 on top of shipping cost.