|
Forum Rules | Firearms Safety | Firearms Photos | Links | Library | Lost Password | Email Changes |
Register | FAQ | Calendar | Today's Posts | Search |
|
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
December 27, 2016, 11:53 PM | #1 |
Junior Member
Join Date: December 27, 2016
Posts: 2
|
Question about mailing shotgun
I have been reading all over the internet and cannot find a solution to my problem anywhere. I was living in Nevada with a roommate, I am now living in Austin Texas. My shotguns are still in my old room and my question is can I have my roommate ship my shotguns to my new address? I read that I could ship them to myself in another state, but I am not in Nevada and cannot mail them, can my roommate mail them to me?
|
December 28, 2016, 12:00 AM | #2 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: January 23, 2006
Location: Plano, Texas
Posts: 3,074
|
Quote:
He can ship them to a licensed dealer in Texas, who will transfer them to you. Read the sticky:http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=539529
__________________
Need a FFL in Dallas/Plano/Allen/Frisco/McKinney ? Just EMAIL me. $20 transfers ($10 for CHL, active military,police,fire or schoolteachers) Plano, Texas...........the Gun Nut Capitol of Gun Culture, USA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pELwCqz2JfE |
|
December 28, 2016, 12:01 AM | #3 |
Junior Member
Join Date: December 27, 2016
Posts: 2
|
ok thank you
|
December 28, 2016, 12:06 AM | #4 |
Senior Member
Join Date: September 5, 2010
Location: McMurdo Sound Texas
Posts: 4,322
|
We recently left Austin, but did business there with FFL Mike Cargill, a good guy.
He runs www.centraltexasgunworks.com, a full service FFL with good rates and service. Good luck!
__________________
Cave illos in guns et backhoes |
December 28, 2016, 12:49 AM | #5 | ||||||||||||||
Staff
Join Date: November 23, 2005
Location: California - San Francisco
Posts: 9,471
|
Quote:
Since it's an issue that comes up regularly, let's look at why. letting someone in another State have possession of "your" gun (or leaving your gun with someone when you move to another State) is highly problematic under federal law. The federal laws relating to the transfer of a gun from a resident of one State to a resident of another (i. e., the Gun Control Act of 1968 or GCA68) are about physical possession, not ownership. GCA68 was Congress' responding to enormous public pressure after the assassinations by gunfire of three wildly popular public figures -- JFK, RFK and MLK. The law was intended to regulate and control the interstate transfer of firearms. It was structured so that to the extent reasonably possible any transfer of possession of a gun from a resident of one State to a resident of another would have to go through an FFL. And in the context of the concerns intended to be addressed by Congress through GCA68, it's possession and not ownership that matters. Someone who has a gun in his possession can use it, whether or not he has legal title to it. Letting someone have possession of your gun in that person's State of residence will be considered a transfer. It certainly is under federal law, and would also most likely be also considered a transfer under state laws. That's just what "transfer" means.
__________________
"It is long been a principle of ours that one is no more armed because he has possession of a firearm than he is a musician because he owns a piano. There is no point in having a gun if you are not capable of using it skillfully." -- Jeff Cooper |
||||||||||||||
December 28, 2016, 07:10 PM | #6 |
Senior Member
Join Date: October 20, 2007
Location: Richardson, TX
Posts: 7,523
|
I would just do what Dogtown suggested. If it's going to a FFL, the shotgun can legally go via U.S. mail,* which makes it reasonably inexpensive to ship.
*CAVEAT: This assumes that it is NOT an NFA SBS/AOW or a pistol-grip-only (PGO) shotgun. The former is subject to transfer taxes and so forth. The latter is considered an "Other Firearm" and may not be transferred outside of the recipient's state of residence, or mailed by a non-FFL (a PGO shotgun is basically treated like a handgun by the ATF and USPS). [EDIT: The post to which I was responding was deleted while this post was being written, so this post has been pared down.]
__________________
"Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules... MARK IT ZERO!!" - Walter Sobchak Last edited by carguychris; December 29, 2016 at 08:50 AM. |
December 28, 2016, 07:11 PM | #7 |
Staff
Join Date: November 23, 2005
Location: California - San Francisco
Posts: 9,471
|
A couple of members suggested that the OP go and pick up the guns. Those posts have been deleted because doing so would still violate federal law. It would still be an illegal interstate transfer from a resident of one State to a resident of another.
__________________
"It is long been a principle of ours that one is no more armed because he has possession of a firearm than he is a musician because he owns a piano. There is no point in having a gun if you are not capable of using it skillfully." -- Jeff Cooper |
December 28, 2016, 07:34 PM | #8 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 12, 2002
Location: MO
Posts: 5,457
|
They're his guns, Frank. Any reason he can't simply go pick up his own property?
__________________
People were smarter before the Internet, or imbeciles were harder to notice. Last edited by Sarge; December 28, 2016 at 08:12 PM. |
December 28, 2016, 10:38 PM | #9 | |
Staff
Join Date: September 25, 2008
Location: CONUS
Posts: 18,462
|
I'm not Frank, but he answered this question in his lengthy post above:
Quote:
|
|
December 28, 2016, 11:36 PM | #10 | ||
Staff
Join Date: November 23, 2005
Location: California - San Francisco
Posts: 9,471
|
Quote:
I've cited the relevant federal statutes. Can you cite some legal authority to the effect that my reading of those federal statutes, as I outlined in detail in post 5, is not correct? Note also that until the last election, when apparently the OP left the gun with his roommate, private firearms transaction did not require any formalities. Now the voters of Nevada has adopted a universal background check, so under that law, once it become effective, leaving guns behind as the OP did would also probably be an illegal transfer under Nevada law. Quote:
__________________
"It is long been a principle of ours that one is no more armed because he has possession of a firearm than he is a musician because he owns a piano. There is no point in having a gun if you are not capable of using it skillfully." -- Jeff Cooper |
||
December 29, 2016, 12:30 AM | #11 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 12, 2002
Location: MO
Posts: 5,457
|
Jesus. The opening post reads:
Quote:
His opinion will be the one that matters. Not mine or anybody else's here.
__________________
People were smarter before the Internet, or imbeciles were harder to notice. |
|
December 29, 2016, 12:43 AM | #12 | ||||
Senior Member
Join Date: January 23, 2006
Location: Plano, Texas
Posts: 3,074
|
Quote:
Legal possession of a firearm has absolutely nothing to do with ownership. Legal transfer of a firearm has absolutely nothing to do with ownership. Quote:
Quote:
You should stop posting because you don't really know one bit about Federal gun law.
__________________
Need a FFL in Dallas/Plano/Allen/Frisco/McKinney ? Just EMAIL me. $20 transfers ($10 for CHL, active military,police,fire or schoolteachers) Plano, Texas...........the Gun Nut Capitol of Gun Culture, USA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pELwCqz2JfE |
||||
December 29, 2016, 12:48 AM | #13 | |
Staff
Join Date: November 23, 2005
Location: California - San Francisco
Posts: 9,471
|
Quote:
If the OP wants reliable legal advice he needs to hire a lawyer knowledgeable in this area, provide complete information to his lawyer, and pay for a fully researched legal opinion.
__________________
"It is long been a principle of ours that one is no more armed because he has possession of a firearm than he is a musician because he owns a piano. There is no point in having a gun if you are not capable of using it skillfully." -- Jeff Cooper |
|
December 29, 2016, 04:37 AM | #14 |
Staff
Join Date: September 25, 2008
Location: CONUS
Posts: 18,462
|
Sarge, think of it this way: When you take -- or ship -- a firearm to a gunsmith for repair or modification, nobody questions that it's your firearm. Even though it's your firearm, when it arrives at the gunsmith's place of business he enters it into his bound book -- it's a record of a transfer from you to him. If you used a local FFL to facilitate the shipment, then the gun goes into the local FFL's bound book when you turn it over to him, and then he writes it out when he ships it to the gunsmith. The gunsmith then enters it into HIS bound book upon receipt, and he writes it out when he ships it back. If it gets shipped back through the local FFL, once again he enters it into his bound book upon receipt, and then writes it out when you pick it up.
And throughout all these bound book entries (transfers), it was always YOUR firearm, and nobody ever tried to claim it was anything other than your firearm. |
December 29, 2016, 12:43 PM | #15 |
Senior Member
Join Date: February 13, 2009
Location: NJ
Posts: 1,254
|
This thread kind of got silly. It'd probably be more expensive to drive to Nevada to pick them up than it would to have his old roommate ship them to a FFL in Austin. Just pay the transfer fee and move on
|
December 29, 2016, 01:00 PM | #16 |
Staff
Join Date: November 23, 2005
Location: California - San Francisco
Posts: 9,471
|
A bunch more useless/worthless posts (and a couple of now unnecessary responses to them) have been deleted.
I'm closing this before any more garbage gets posted. The OP has the answer he needs in posts 2, 5, 6, and 15.
__________________
"It is long been a principle of ours that one is no more armed because he has possession of a firearm than he is a musician because he owns a piano. There is no point in having a gun if you are not capable of using it skillfully." -- Jeff Cooper |
|
|