So... a friend of mine was willed a couple shotguns and a disabled (plugged barrel, welded action) revolver by his uncle in the UK.
1) My understanding is that a disabled handgun is nothing more than a paperweight as far as the UK, US, and MA governments are concerned, so he *should* be able to stuff it in his luggage and fly home with it. Except that someone might freak out that there's something that looks like a revolver in his luggage, and that could suck. So he could ship it to himself, but then someone else might freak out and he'd lose it. Is there a sensible / surefire way to move a replica/disabled handgun from the UK to MA?
2) How do you move shotguns from the UK to the US? Do they need to go through an importer who will have to put their stamp on it, or can it go directly to a FFL with the right customs forms filled out? They're all stuff you can have in the UK, so there's nothing legally questionable about any of them.
1) My understanding is that a disabled handgun is nothing more than a paperweight as far as the UK, US, and MA governments are concerned, so he *should* be able to stuff it in his luggage and fly home with it. Except that someone might freak out that there's something that looks like a revolver in his luggage, and that could suck. So he could ship it to himself, but then someone else might freak out and he'd lose it. Is there a sensible / surefire way to move a replica/disabled handgun from the UK to MA?
2) How do you move shotguns from the UK to the US? Do they need to go through an importer who will have to put their stamp on it, or can it go directly to a FFL with the right customs forms filled out? They're all stuff you can have in the UK, so there's nothing legally questionable about any of them.
