Sunday, November 20, 2005

What Can Brown Do For You?

Four former UPS workers have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to sell stolen handguns in what federal officials are calling one of the largest gun-trafficking schemes in the state's history.

The UPS response to its own lack of internal security was to initially ban firearm shipments. They since figured there was a buck to be made, and modified their policy to require that shippers use the more expensive Next Day Air--from one of their shipping centers, not from an "authorized outlet".

American Handgunner did a good synopsis of the rules a few years back.

Here are the current regs for:

UPS
Fed-Ex
DHL
USPS (Sec. 11.1 - 11.4)

1 comment:

  1. Won't get stolen if you don't declare it as a firearm. I sent my 1911A1 and a loaded magazine to a gunsmith using FedEx overnight shipping. Everything went just fine. I'm not sure if they even check the packages. Or at least if they checked mine.

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