Mailing a Gun!! Help? Please!
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Mailing a Gun!! Help? Please!
Ok I've got a tourus pt 709 that I have to mail to Fl. For warranty work!! Can I just UPS it or what??? Thanks for any info!!!
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Re: Mailing a Gun!! Help? Please!
http://www.gunbroker.com/support/Suppor ... faqid=1118" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
FedEx works for me...
http://www.fedex.com/us/service-guide/t ... index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
FedEx works for me...
http://www.fedex.com/us/service-guide/t ... index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
FedEx Express will transport and deliver firearms as defined by the United States Gun Control Act of 1968, between areas served in the U.S., but only between:
Licensed importers; licensed manufacturers; licensed dealers; licensed collectors; law enforcement agencies of the U.S. or any department or agency thereof; and law enforcement agencies of any state or any department, agency or political subdivisions thereof; or
Where not prohibited by local, state and federal law, from individuals to licensed importers, licensed manufacturers or licensed dealers (and return of same).
If your shipment contains firearms, select the Direct Signature Required or Adult Signature Required Delivery Signature Option, depending on the requirements of your shipment. See the Delivery Signature Options section for details. Firearms shipments are not eligible for signature release or indirect delivery.
Firearms must be shipped via FedEx Priority Overnight service. FedEx Express cannot ship or deliver firearms C.O.D. Firearms shipments cannot be placed in a FedEx Express Drop Box.
Upon presenting the package for shipment, the person tendering the shipment to FedEx Express is required to notify FedEx Express that the package contains a firearm. The outside of the package must not be marked, labeled or otherwise identify that the package contains a firearm.
The shipper and recipient must be of legal age as identified by applicable law.
The shipper and recipient are required to comply with all applicable government regulations and laws, including those pertaining to labeling. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives can provide assistance.
FedEx Express will transport ammunition when packed and labeled in compliance with local, state and federal law, and the Dangerous Goods section of this Service Guide. Ammunition is an explosive and must be shipped separately as dangerous goods. You agree not to ship loaded firearms or firearms with ammunition in the same package.
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Re: Mailing a Gun!! Help? Please!
You can go to a "distribution center" for FedEx or UPS and ship the firearm. Since it is a handgun you are unable to ship it via USPS yourself unless you have an FFL, but you can have an FFL ship it via USPS for a lot less than shipping via FedEx or UPS.
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Re: Mailing a Gun!! Help? Please!
Or you can ask Taurus to email you a FedEx or UPS prepaid label and you just take it to FedEx or UPS distribution center.JT69 wrote:Ok I've got a tourus pt 709 that I have to mail to Fl. For warranty work!! Can I just UPS it or what??? Thanks for any info!!!
If it is warranty work they should pay to ship.
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Re: Mailing a Gun!! Help? Please!
G.A. Heath wrote:You can go to a "distribution center" for FedEx or UPS and ship the firearm. Since it is a handgun you are unable to ship it via USPS yourself unless you have an FFL, but you can have an FFL ship it via USPS for a lot less than shipping via FedEx or UPS.

AEA wrote:Or you can ask Taurus to email you a FedEx or UPS prepaid label and you just take it to FedEx or UPS distribution center.JT69 wrote:Ok I've got a tourus pt 709 that I have to mail to Fl. For warranty work!! Can I just UPS it or what??? Thanks for any info!!!
If it is warranty work they should pay to ship.


Re: Mailing a Gun!! Help? Please!
carlson1 wrote:G.A. Heath wrote:You can go to a "distribution center" for FedEx or UPS and ship the firearm. Since it is a handgun you are unable to ship it via USPS yourself unless you have an FFL, but you can have an FFL ship it via USPS for a lot less than shipping via FedEx or UPS.![]()
AEA wrote:Or you can ask Taurus to email you a FedEx or UPS prepaid label and you just take it to FedEx or UPS distribution center.JT69 wrote:Ok I've got a tourus pt 709 that I have to mail to Fl. For warranty work!! Can I just UPS it or what??? Thanks for any info!!!
If it is warranty work they should pay to ship.![]()

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To the original purchaser.WildBill wrote:Taurus has a lifetime warranty. http://www.taurususa.com/repair-policy.cfm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: Mailing a Gun!! Help? Please!
Jumping Frog wrote:To the original purchaser.WildBill wrote:Taurus has a lifetime warranty. http://www.taurususa.com/repair-policy.cfm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Taurus Website wrote:The Taurus Unlimited Lifetime Repair Policy™ is just that. The lifetime of the gun...not the buyer.
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Re: Mailing a Gun!! Help? Please!
Thanks guys !! Got it of today!! FedEx
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Re: Mailing a Gun!! Help? Please!
Interesting.WildBill wrote:Jumping Frog wrote:To the original purchaser.WildBill wrote:Taurus has a lifetime warranty. http://www.taurususa.com/repair-policy.cfm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Taurus Website wrote:The Taurus Unlimited Lifetime Repair Policy™ is just that. The lifetime of the gun...not the buyer.
IIRC, I've read around here somewhere that they'll pay for the shipping for the original purchaser within the first year, but after that shipping is on the customer's dime.
I think that is what I was confusing, mixing the warranty info with the shipping policy.
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Re: Mailing a Gun!! Help? Please!
Maybe, but I don't own a Taurus.Jumping Frog wrote:Interesting.WildBill wrote:Jumping Frog wrote:To the original purchaser.WildBill wrote:Taurus has a lifetime warranty. http://www.taurususa.com/repair-policy.cfm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Taurus Website wrote:The Taurus Unlimited Lifetime Repair Policy™ is just that. The lifetime of the gun...not the buyer.
IIRC, I've read around here somewhere that they'll pay for the shipping for the original purchaser within the first year, but after that shipping is on the customer's dime.
I think that is what I was confusing, mixing the warranty info with the shipping policy.

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Re: Mailing a Gun!! Help? Please!
WildBill wrote:Maybe, but I don't own a Taurus.


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Re: Mailing a Gun!! Help? Please!
Me either! 
'Cept for my Stainless Rossi 16" M92 1892 .357 lever gun which has a one year warranty by Rossi/BrazTech/Taurus (one in the same).

'Cept for my Stainless Rossi 16" M92 1892 .357 lever gun which has a one year warranty by Rossi/BrazTech/Taurus (one in the same).
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Re: Mailing a Gun!! Help? Please!
Nothing wrong with the Taurus brand. I have a 1911 9mm and 2 92s and all are solid. Only thing I have done to them is remove the cast FCG parts in the 1911 and put in Ed Brown parts. I have 1911s in Colt, Sig, Kimber etc and would have no qualms grabbing the Taurus.