OT Legalities shipping brass/ammo

Jeff Pitts · Post by **Jeff Pitts** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:33 pm

Fellers, is it legal to ship PRIMED brass from one person to another? How about loaded brass? Can that be shipped from person to person?

Thanks!

Jeff

Post by **Hobie** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:34 pm

Yes, via UPS or FEDEX, not USPS. Unprimed brass can be shipped USPS. No explosives via USPS.

Jeff Pitts · Post by **Jeff Pitts** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 8:02 pm

Thanks Hobie. That works!

Jeff

Leverluver · Post by **Leverluver** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 9:43 pm

Referring to ammo here, best not make a trip to your local FedEx/Kinkos or UPS Store. They are not operated by employees of the company and 99% of the time will not accept the shipment of ammo. You will need to go to the UPS or FedEx owned and operated facility in your area. Either that or ship from a local dealer. A lot of FFL related stores in this area anyway, also ship by one or the other and will also take outside shipments. In any case, packages are to be boldly and legibly marked with an ORM-D sticker that denotes that the package contains small arms ammunition. I no longer depend on the shipping facility to have the stickers. I made some up in a word processer program and made them bold and blew them up to one inch tall. Just stick them on with tape and you're good to go. There is no extra charge for the ORM-D and don't let them say there is.

Post by **Hobie** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 10:09 pm

And if you know somebody with an account they can write up a shipment for you and have it go out with the day's pickup, no limit on that.

JerryB · Post by **JerryB** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 11:00 pm

Hobie, my sad tale,sometime ago I was trying to send some 32-20 bullets to Kirk and I could not get ups to ship them because they said lead was a banned substance and could not be shipped. I had first tried to mail them and the Postal folks went "Postal" on me.I told the they were just lead bullets.I think it was because of mailing out of the country and trying to e honest about it.