UPS Rules for shipping Guns

[Paul Wilczynski]

I found out yesterday that shipping of any guns by UPS is now very restricted. Here is what has happened. (I pulled this off the internet.)

As of August 29, 2022, shipping firearms via UPS will no longer be allowed for private individuals. According to their publication: 2022 UPS® Tariff/Terms & Conditions of Service – United States, only licensed dealers with a pre-existing contractual relationship will be able to ship firearms using Big Brown.

If you went to a UPS store or facility, they would refuse to ship it. If you create your own label at home, you can still do it. When it comes to insurance and description of content it looks to become dicey. Will the insurance I pay for be void if the gun is damaged?

Another way gun owners are becoming squeezed.

[Joe from MO]

My gun club does all my gun shipping anymore. Got tired of the who will, or will not take guns or ammo for that matter.

They just charge me the same shipping they would pay, so it's the easy button for me.

[Bob Jurewicz]

Use USPS.
Bob Jurewicz

[B. Dudley]

Old news. This has been discussed a lot when it came out.

[Paul Wilczynski]

Per the NRA site the UPS action was based on the following letter:

The latest changes, along with the earlier decision on shipping gun parts, are likely a result of a strongly worded letter sent on May 19 to UPS, Federal Express, the U.S. Postal Service, and trucking and rail carriers by five anti-gun U.S. senators blaming shipping companies for playing a part in the country’s criminal violence problem. The letter, signed by Democrat Sens. Edward Markey (Mass.), Corey Booker (N.J.), Chris Murphy (Conn.), Richard Blumenthal (Conn.), and Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), stated, “We are concerned that lax shipping security measures are contributing to the epidemic of gun violence in this country by allowing criminals to use stolen firearms to commit crimes.”

This tells me that FedEx and USPS may follow suite if not already.

[B. Dudley]

Fed ex did similar things in response to that letter. USPS told them to go blow.