Shipping Firearms

[slopeshunter]

Hey everyone,

So as far as private sales of firearms goes, it sounds like Canada Post does an awful lot of shipping of firearms. The following is taken from the Canada Post website:

3.3 Firearms (including imitation and replica firearms)

Please contact the Canadian Firearms Centre at cfc-cafc.gc.ca or by calling 1.800.731.4000 to determine whether it is permissible to ship your firearms.

When it is determined permissible to ship firearms, they must be shipped as follows:

Customer Type Service To Be Used
Non-contract Customer: Regular Parcel with Signature option
Contract Customer: Expedited Parcel with the Proof of Age (18 or 19) option using EST. Visit section 4.3.2 “Mail Addressed to Children” of “Policies” for an age of majority by province or territory listing.

There cannot be any ammunition in the firearm or in the package. Bullets, cartridges and other ammunition are dangerous goods and cannot be mailed. These items fall under Class 1 (Explosives) of the Canadian Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act.

Customers who wish to ship firearms must :

• unload the firearm
• attach a secure locking device to the firearms
• lock the firearm in a sturdy, non-transparent container and
• remove the bolt or bolt carrier from any automatic firearms (if removable).

Firearms cannot be shipped via air and cannot have any markings on the outside of the packaging. The Customer is solely responsible for meeting all Canadian Firearms Centre regulations.

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Ok, so here's what I'm wondering. Are they serious??

• Do guys really phone the CFC to see if they can ship firearms via Canada Post?
• Secure locking device? So let me get this right. I'm going to sell a firearm to someone, then I'm going to put a trigger lock on it & may as well leave the key in there so he can open it when he gets it.
• Lock the firearm in a container? Last time I bought a rifle from someone he just shipped it in the box he got it in. The only thing securing it in the box was the couple wraps of duct tape he put around it.

Seriously, what's with this stuff from Canada Post???

Thanks guys.

[220swifty]

It isn't there business if you are shipping guns, golf clubs or gouda, so long as you satisfy the law.

Put it in a box and ship it.......nuff said.

[Big Racks]

Originally Posted by sheephunter

Put it in a box and ship it.......nuff said.

X2!! I've shipped, and received, enough rifles and shotguns I'd be hard pressed to name a tenth of them and 99% have been through Canada Post and not adhering to any of that extra verbage they've added to their site. I will say there is a benefit to signing up for their Venture One program. Expedited Parcel forthe same price as regular post is a bit quicker plus gives you the first $100 insurance for free.

[209x50]

Originally Posted by sheephunter

Put it in a box and ship it.......nuff said.

Ayup!

[MountainTi]

Sounds to me it's pretty cut and dry that shipping a firearm in it's original cardboard packaging is illegal. I certainly wouldn't condone doing it on a public forum.

[209x50]

Read careful, those aren't cfc laws they are Canada Post rules. Big difference.

[slater24]

Originally Posted by MountainTi

Sounds to me it's pretty cut and dry that shipping a firearm in it's original cardboard packaging is illegal. I certainly wouldn't condone doing it on a public forum.

I brought in a bare rifle to the post office,(bolt removed) and they boxed it up for me and sent it away for a mere 30 dollars.But I do not condone illegal activity,hmmmm,sounds complicated kinda like a rolladex of gun laws the government has been spinning for years.
opps did I say that or think that?
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