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Doc Holliday 1950

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What happens if you have a problem with your revolver and you don't want to send it back to the mfg because their CQ/Service Dept.is not the best. Now you find a great gun smith who lives maybe in your state or another state. Can you directly send it to him/her and how do you get your weapon back? Can it be sent directly to you or must it go to a FFL? I live in Tennessee.
Respectfully,
Doc
 
Fed law allows you to send and receive a firearm (short or long) to/from a gunsmith without a FFL transfer. You (as a non-FFL holder) cannot use USPS to send a handgun but you can use it to send a long gun (I think there is a shipping sticky that explains that).
 
Thanks Doyle. I found the sticky about intrastate shipping and interstate shipping. That's exactly what I wanted to know. I can use Fed Ex. or use my dealer and pay his fees.
Doc.
 
See if your gunsmith has an arrangement with FedEx or UPS. When I sent my Ruger back to them, they sent me a pre-paid mailing label. It would have cost me BIG bucks but it only cost them about $20 on their corporate account. Maybe he'll have some kind of business account with them too and can create a shipping label for you at his cost.
 
FedEx or UPS require guns to be shipped overnight air. That is what drives up the cost to ship them.
 
I'm not sure that next day air is required, I just had a hand gun shipped
from NC to Washington state. It was shipped via FedEx, the trip required
7 days from start to finish,tracked it thru five different stops in different
states before it reached my FFL.
Just my experience, .......................Jack
 
If you live in Nashville, it'd be worth the drive to come to Memphis and work with my 'smith, Keith Warner. If I know when you'd be coming, I'll even buy you a barbecue.


Bob Wright
 
I've had this happen too from a major online retailer. I don't see any FedEx regulation mandating next day service.
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If the retailer does not tell Fedex it's a handgun then they can ship anyway they want. There is no law requiring you tell them, It's their policy. If you tell them you are shipping a handgun then yes, it must go overnight.

From their website:
C. Firearms must be shipped via FedEx Priority Overnight service. FedEx Express cannot ship or deliver firearms C.O.D. Firearms shipments cannot be placed in a FedEx Express Drop Box.

Jim
 
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The major companies negotiate contracts with FedEx and UPS that might allow them to use different rules than the rest of us. The rates they pay are certainly different.
 
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