We have been thru this before, 100 times, a unlicensed person MAY send a rifle or a shotgun thru the USPS providing you comply with the GCA.
<span style="font-weight: bold">"Although unloaded rifles and shotguns not precluded by 11.1.1e and 11.1.2 are mailable, mailers must comply with the Gun Control Act of 1968, Public Law 90-618, 18 USC 921, et seq., and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, 27 CFR 178, as well as state and local laws. The mailer may be required by the USPS to establish, by opening the parcel or by written certification, that the gun is unloaded and not precluded by 11.1.1e."</span>
Normally I go out of my way to avoid idiots but I simply can not let this one go. I've tried to mail a long-gun thru my local USPS office 3 times, and each time I am met with a hostile, defensive and aggressive douchnozzle who immediately threatens to call the police on me and tells me I am going to federal prison.
Between his tyrant I try to politely tell him that he is correct, that only a FFL can ship a firearm that is concealable, however a long-gun or shotgun, unloaded, is within my legal right.
I have also brought to him printed documentation from the ATF website as it related to a "unlicensed person" sending a firearm indicating that it is within my legal right to do so, as you do not need to be a FFL.
I have proven to him, that the destination address is indeed a licensed FFL dealer and also tried to educate him that within the state's boundaries I can ship to a unlicensed person. I was shipping out of state though, and indeed to a FFL.
The third time I politely told him to call the police when he threatened to do so. He did. The police came and talked to me outside and they said, and i am paraphrasing, that I was right, however they have no authority to force the post office to allow me to ship that rifle, and that I should just go use USPS or FEDEX hub locations. That is not convenient for me.
I have also filed a complaint with the consumer affairs division, but that is going to go nowhere.
20 miles away, there is another post office, I can ship a rifle there, no problems. I have explained this issue to him and asked for guidance on how to educate my local douchenozzle and he said "just come to my store, you can't fix stupid sometimes"
not a great answer.
Each office seems to just do and act as they interpret the law and the organization seems to disjointed that i can't get get advice from one reasonable guy on how to deal with my local jack-hole.
What other documents exist that you know of, that i can bring to my local PO and get him to understand that its my right to ship a gun? It's more a matter of principle for me now to get this guy to allow me to ship a gun. I live .8 miles from this PO so even though there are alternatives I want this guy to understand that I can, and I will, ship a rifle thru his PO.
Is my next call the local ATF office? What other avenues do you recommend?
http://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c4_009.htm#ep308518
http://www.atf.gov/firearms/faq/unlicensed-persons.html#shipping-firearms-usps
http://www.cgwgun.com/shipping/usps.aspx
<span style="font-weight: bold">"Although unloaded rifles and shotguns not precluded by 11.1.1e and 11.1.2 are mailable, mailers must comply with the Gun Control Act of 1968, Public Law 90-618, 18 USC 921, et seq., and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, 27 CFR 178, as well as state and local laws. The mailer may be required by the USPS to establish, by opening the parcel or by written certification, that the gun is unloaded and not precluded by 11.1.1e."</span>
Normally I go out of my way to avoid idiots but I simply can not let this one go. I've tried to mail a long-gun thru my local USPS office 3 times, and each time I am met with a hostile, defensive and aggressive douchnozzle who immediately threatens to call the police on me and tells me I am going to federal prison.
Between his tyrant I try to politely tell him that he is correct, that only a FFL can ship a firearm that is concealable, however a long-gun or shotgun, unloaded, is within my legal right.
I have also brought to him printed documentation from the ATF website as it related to a "unlicensed person" sending a firearm indicating that it is within my legal right to do so, as you do not need to be a FFL.
I have proven to him, that the destination address is indeed a licensed FFL dealer and also tried to educate him that within the state's boundaries I can ship to a unlicensed person. I was shipping out of state though, and indeed to a FFL.
The third time I politely told him to call the police when he threatened to do so. He did. The police came and talked to me outside and they said, and i am paraphrasing, that I was right, however they have no authority to force the post office to allow me to ship that rifle, and that I should just go use USPS or FEDEX hub locations. That is not convenient for me.
I have also filed a complaint with the consumer affairs division, but that is going to go nowhere.
20 miles away, there is another post office, I can ship a rifle there, no problems. I have explained this issue to him and asked for guidance on how to educate my local douchenozzle and he said "just come to my store, you can't fix stupid sometimes"
not a great answer.
Each office seems to just do and act as they interpret the law and the organization seems to disjointed that i can't get get advice from one reasonable guy on how to deal with my local jack-hole.
What other documents exist that you know of, that i can bring to my local PO and get him to understand that its my right to ship a gun? It's more a matter of principle for me now to get this guy to allow me to ship a gun. I live .8 miles from this PO so even though there are alternatives I want this guy to understand that I can, and I will, ship a rifle thru his PO.
Is my next call the local ATF office? What other avenues do you recommend?
http://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c4_009.htm#ep308518
http://www.atf.gov/firearms/faq/unlicensed-persons.html#shipping-firearms-usps
http://www.cgwgun.com/shipping/usps.aspx
