Assuming it's legal for you to possess the firearm in the destination state, you can certainly transport it to that state yourself. Once it is there, you may not transfer possession to a resident of that state without going through an FFL.Can I take a gun out of state and transfer the firearm at a FFL in the other state?
In theory. In practice it's getting very hard to find shippers who will allow this, even if it is legal.Federal law allows you to ship a firearm to a resident of the same state (intrastate) as long as you have no reason to believe that the recipient is a prohibited person.
Yes, provided that firearm is legal to possess in that state.Buzzcook Can I take a gun out of state and transfer the firearm at a FFL in the other state?
There is no family exemption to federal firearms law.I have out of state grandkids and great grandkids that I want to give my guns to. I'd like to give them in person.
That's my understanding these days, is that for a non-FFL individual to ship a gun via UPS, as long as they have a shipping label issued/created by a FFL, it's ok. Otherwise, if they wanted to ship it themselves, it would be a no-go. However, that said, it's usually at the discretion of the individual shop and its specific policies.I was suprised that my local UPS store - one of those small franchise steps in a strip mall - accepted my FN FiveSeven, which was being returned to Customer Service for warranty work.
FN customer service had sent me t a mailing label, and when I told the UPS store that I was shipping a firearm, they said that since I aleady had a mailing label, they could take it.
The UPS store told me that they could not “originate” the shipment - they could not create a label, but if I already had a label, I was fine.
I had never heard of this before.
I was pleasantly surprised - the UPS Service Center was close for no apparent reason the 2nd day in a row, and I stopped by the UPS store expecting to be turned away.