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Posted: 4/24/2007 7:00:24 PM EDT
| Individual shipping an Uzi, can they go USPS, or should they go Fed-ex? Do you have to go overnight if Fed-Ex? Also, If there is a restriction because the Uzi has the short barrel, can you install a 16 carbine barrel on it and just ship it USPS. Thanks |
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Assuming the UZI is some sort of NFA firearm - MG, SBR or AOW, USPS is OK. It's no handguns through USPS. I've used USPS, Fed-Ex and UPS. Fed-Ex is OK with Economy Saver, UPS it had to go 2-day max (that was because of the high insured value). UPS ending up delivering it the next day, no extra charge. Guess they wanted to get rid of it. Train of thought is to ship as fast as posibble to minimize time in the system to loose your gun. No shipper requires a copy of your paperwork. You must declare to them the package contains a firearm, but you don't have to tell them its a machine gun (and I wouldn't). Paperwork required? Depends where you are shipping it. If shipping it to an 07 FFL/02SOT, best to enclose a copy of your F1 or F4 to prove ownership. No F5 required. If to a regular FFL, F5 required. If it is to your other home, you need a .20 if it's in another state. If it is to your buddy in another state .. don't do it. |
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A business-class FFL may mail any firearm. C&R licenses are not acceptable as FFLs to USPS. An unlicensed individual may legally mail long guns (rifles, shotguns) but not handguns or "easily concealable" firearms such as SBRs, SBS's, AOWs, etc. USPS regulations do not recognize NFA items as a separate class -- instead, they use the federal length definitions to determine which firearms are long guns and which are "concealable" handguns. So yes, a full-auto Uzi with a 10" barrel is not mailable, but one with a 16" barrel meets the long-gun definition and may be mailed. I suggest you send all legal, permitted firearms via insured, Registered Priority mail. It's the way most MGs move around the country. 
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