Can a hand gun be sent by us mail, UPS or other means?
Example, when RVing to Alaska can a hand gun be sent to someone you know is Alaska, as it would not be allowed in Canada. Paul
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beemerphile1 wrote:
Just thinking out loud here; if a gun is striped and placed in separate packages - it is no longer a gun. Correct? Wouldn't it just be repair parts at that point?
Parts yes. However, the frame/receiver by itself is still a firearm by law. Even minus all the other parts. You can purchase a frame/receiver separately, but only through a licensed dealer and it is still treated as if it were a complete firearm.
There are legal ways to ship whole firearms.
The US Postal system is not one of them. It is illegal to carry a firearm onto US Postal property period.
A friend of mine shoots competitively. He has shipped both his pistol and ammo to himself in care of the hotel he was staying at with no markings on the packages that indicated there was a firearm inside.
