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I consider $50 per gun excessive UNLESS the FFL dealer is going to do all the wrapping and insuring as well as transport to the Post Office, and that includes the shipping cost.
This may perhaps to be a question of relations with the dealer. There is no requirement that a dealer ship for you or accept a shipment for you. He is doing you a favor by doing so, and he is right to charge a fee. If you have dealt with that dealer in the past, and have good relations with them, the fee might be lower. But a dealer might (not unnaturally) resent someone he has never seen before coming in and demanding that he handle shipping for a gun. The dealer might not say no, but he may feel inclined to make up in part for the sale he missed, especially on a new modern gun.
One way to reduce costs, if your FFL will go along, is for you to prepare all the shipping materials, box, padding, labels, take it in so he can verify the serial numbers, then pack and seal it up at his store. That way, he has only to take it to the P.O.
Jim
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