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He is not a resident of another state if he is only visiting for the summer, and it is not a transfer as he already owns the shotgun. He is essentially shipping his own shotgun to himself. It would not be worth it though. I'd just buy one while I'm up there. Probably won't be much hunting he could do anyway as a non-resident without pre-planning it.
He is not shipping to himself. You are shipping to him. Regulations for shipping do not discuss or care about "ownership", they care about who is shipping and who is receiving. The only way to ship the gun to him is through an FFL. Unless we are discussing a REALLY nice gun, your shipping costs and FFL costs and... will approximate the value of the gun.
I think I have, but it was probably "anything liquid or hazardous in there?" or equivalent
OP doesn't say he's "visiting Alaska"; he's "living in Alaska".
Op sez that he's living at a "campground". I know the Homer Spit well and maybe he's at the campground there. Google Earth the Homer, AK spit. First time I took the wife there she had no problem finding the most expensive hotel in Alaska which is at the end of the Spit. It was worth it. You get up in the morning, step out on the deck, and it feels like the mountains across the bay are towering over you. Also, the spit goes out three miles into the bay and you feel like you are in the middle of the ocean. You have coffee and watch 200+ small charter boats leave the harbor and head out to the Cook Inlet to fish for halibut. At the end of the day, a lot of kids make some $$ carrying the larger halibut up the ramps from the boats on stretchers to where the local photographers will hang up the fish and take pics of you and your catch. For a price. Homer is the "Halibut fishing capitol of the world", and the signs everywhere keep reminding you of that. Jack.
You're never gonna get anywhere volunteering wrong answers like that.
I'd love to look for agates on the Spit some day.
I've never seen any but I wasn't really looking. Along the bluff further into the bay I did find a really nice looking piece of petrified redwood about 5 pounds. Son Mark tells me that they wash up here and there. Rumor has it that the Kenai Peninsula was all redwood umpteen thousand years ago. Anyway, you have miles along the bay to look. Good luck. Remember, though that the bluff gets pretty steep and ways out and up to the road are limited. And the tide does come in---------Jack.
I've heard plenty of war stories from people scrabbling about
Right. And the bluff gets so high and steep towards the end of the bay where the Russian village is that they need to use an unpaved switchback to get in and out. I've done the switchback in a wheeler at 2-3 mph and still almost pissed my pants. The Russian kids have no fear and you see the pickup trucks at the bottom that took a short cut by going down end over end across the switchback. Jack.
No one cares about ownership in this case. You are applying an irrelevant concept. We care about who drops the package in the mail and who receives it. That is what federal law cares about.
LMAO. Jack you deliver more every day.
Sigh.
Mailed to where? A campground? Not talking about the OP's son, but the Spit is loaded with "Spit rats" during the summer. Mostly college kids. They live in tents and makeshift shelters. Wash up in rest rooms, cook over camp fires, shit where they can and "party" all night. The tide giveth and taketh away. Actually not a bad way to vacation. Jack.
Sending (paper, not shooty) mail to my parents at Lake Eaton State Campground,
Sounds like how I heard Skydive Pepperell (used to) run.
If he befriends some local outdoorsman,
Concur; there seem to be some Alaskan-sized flies in the ointment.
I currently have about 60 pounds of halibut in my chest freezer from our trip up there, we got it processed and frozen and carried it home.
