I'm hoping to get into shotshell reloading and have started looking around for equipment. Just wondering if the shipping companies and the border agency give the hassle for reloading equipment as they do for some of the firearms components and such? I haven't been able to find a straight answer on this, and leaving it up to the whims of a shipper or border inspector just seems like asking for trouble.
Shipping Reloading Equipment
- Thread starter Bluegill
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I have never had a problem with reloading equipment, including bullet molds. they are also ITAR exempt, so you can pick them up and drive them across.
Okay, is there any problem going the other way? I "fell into" a complete Lee 50th Anniversary kit that is sort of useless to me in Canada because my loading desk is complete up there. However, I could sure use that kit here in Irapuato. Can I drive the kit across the Canada/U.S. border and ship it to Laredo without hassle? Once in Laredo, it will just sit there a while and then mysteriously appear in a warehouse in Guanajuato City. Strange how that happens.
But my question is simply: would there be any problem with a Canadian driving into the U.S. with a Lee 50th Anniversary kit in the car for shipping to a southern border town? Or would it just be best to mail the thing from Canada?
couldn't help you there. I doubt there would be problem bringing it in to the US. have you done this with other items? they may want to collect tax on an item coming into the US.
Excellent, thanks for clearing that up. I'm close enough to the border that I can do that if needed.
Since I got the entire "kit" for free, I'd gladly pay some small tax to cross it and mail it southward from there. It would be cheaper -- and probably more likely to arrive at it's destination -- done that way. At least, that's my thoughts.
This is a question for US border services.
