How do you ship your Firearms?

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Hiya,

Just wondering the best way to ship firearms across the country.

For a small 9mm Pistol in the original case, do you lock it up and then wrap it in something, then bring it to the post office?

For a rifle of some sort, if you ship it in a hard or soft case, do you lock it and then wrap it with something as well?

Do you have to mark on the package somehow that it's a firearm?

I'm just trying to figure out how you experienced guys do this.

Thanks,

Joe
 
Canada Post signature required. Do not mark as firearms. Plain wrapper. Non restricted does not require trigger lock. Never ammo in the same parcel (Canada Post won't ship ammo). Original box the gun came in is fine, if not a hard case is probably best. Expect rough handling and package accordingly.
 
Jgoulin said:
Canada Post signature required. Do not mark as firearms. Plain wrapper. Non restricted does not require trigger lock. Never ammo in the same parcel (Canada Post won't ship ammo). Original box the gun came in is fine, if not a hard case is probably best. Expect rough handling and package accordingly.
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Except you need some sort of locking device on the firearm to render it inoperable.

From Canada Post’s website:
Customers who wish to ship firearms must:
unload the firearms - there cannot be any ammunition in the firearm or in the package (bullets, cartridges and other ammunition are dangerous goods)
attach a secure locking device to the firearms
lock the firearms in a sturdy, non-transparent container, and
remove the bolt or bolt carrier from any automatic firearms (if removable).
Firearms cannot be shipped via air and cannot have any markings on the outside of the packaging. The customer is solely responsible for meeting all Canadian Firearms Centre regulations.
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I get it in a box , put some tie wrap to make sure it doesn't move in there, tape the hole box , more than enough that the wrapping is mostly tape , with a piece of paper with the address of delivery and mine with a layer of clear tape over , so if they ####ed up the shipping label the parcel get to destination or come back ,
 
I ship with Canada Post.
I use a Venture 1 card and use a sturdy box from the local gun store.
Brown paper wrap and a whole schitz load of clear packing tape.
Had one guy shrink wrap a box with a gun inside once too...that was a chore and then some opening it up too.
Gave him 100% feed back too.
Rob
 
Last rifle I shipped had a crap ton of bubble wrap and an actual gun box. Address written in marker on the box with clear tape over it. One thing I've learned over the years, if it moves, it can get damaged. Once, I sent an old ( really old ) Coleman lantern to California. Everything made it one piece. Even the hard to replace glass globe. That said, for a rifle, protect the muzzle. More than once there has a been cases of rifles arriving with the muzzle sticking out of the end of the box. Newspaper ( balled up ), bubble wrap and good packing tape are your friend.
 
Dollar store can be your best friend. All the brown wrapping paper, bubble wrap, packing tape, and markers you need for less than a couple of cups 'o coffee and muffin.
 
Sometimes “Signature Required” doesn’t always happen. I came home one day to find a big, shiny box with “Sako Premium Rifles” leaning against my front door. ��
 
If you can't find gun box I have just cut open a box and folded it over the rifle and duct tape it up good. News paper ball around the muzzle and butt. Bubble wrap it if its in nice shape gun. milsurps or beater guns don't need bubble wrap.

Canada post wants you to lock it inside the box even though you can just put the key in box. One worker told me they x-ray boxes and open up the gun boxes if its not trigger locked. My experience says that is a lie.

They also say signature needed but in my experience this is also a lie. I have had a rifle in a box on left on my front step a couple times. I once shipped a shotgun and the worker guessed right that it was a gun and told me to trigger lock it. I opened it up, trigger locked it and shipped it with no signature.
 
billbmcleod said:
I have received a long gun with a trigger lock and a handgun without so I think it is how the sender feels about the law.
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That is true.

Canada Post does state at the till that the “sturdy non-transparent locked container” can be the cardboard box if adequately taped. They also accept zip ties on the triggers and/or magwells. For the removal of the bolt it can still be shipped with the firearm, just not installed (upper separated from lower counts as removing bolt). My post office would provide this in writing if asked, but 2 of the ladies there are shooters so that always helps. Good ol’ rural SK lol.
 
Not sure this is the section to ask for advise
I will be travelling to Alberta by air. I will be taking my rifle as a checked baggage.
Does anyone knows if when I arrive at the airport will I be picking it up with other checked baggage?

Thanks
 
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