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Re: CMP M1 Garand "misdelivered" by FedEx

Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 10:57 am
by brewster2012
Situation resolved. After 2 phone calls to FedEx, they informed me the package was at the FedEx store where it should have been held in the first place. I picked it up yesterday after work and am very pleased with the rifle; metal condition is excellent, walnut stock with plenty of "character" marks but no major defects. Throat erosion was 2 and barrel gauged at 1 (possibly vice versa as I only glanced at the paperwork). Serial number dates it to 1954-56 manufacture - H&R.

:patriot:

Re: CMP M1 Garand "misdelivered" by FedEx

Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 11:37 am
by MotherBear
TxRVer wrote:UPS misdelivered a case of wine to my house. Exactly one month later they came and picked it up.
Did you give them a bill for a month of climate-controlled storage? :rules:

Re: CMP M1 Garand "misdelivered" by FedEx

Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 1:13 pm
by howdy
TxRVer wrote:UPS misdelivered a case of wine to my house. Exactly one month later they came and picked it up.

I think they would have picked up a case of empty bottles here. :mrgreen:

Re: CMP M1 Garand "misdelivered" by FedEx

Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 2:50 pm
by JSThane
brewster2012 wrote:Situation resolved. After 2 phone calls to FedEx, they informed me the package was at the FedEx store where it should have been held in the first place. I picked it up yesterday after work and am very pleased with the rifle; metal condition is excellent, walnut stock with plenty of "character" marks but no major defects. Throat erosion was 2 and barrel gauged at 1 (possibly vice versa as I only glanced at the paperwork). Serial number dates it to 1954-56 manufacture - H&R.

:patriot:
Wonder if it was at the store all along, or if they had to go knocking on someone's door?

Re: CMP M1 Garand "misdelivered" by FedEx

Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 10:01 pm
by brhalltx
howdy wrote:
TxRVer wrote:UPS misdelivered a case of wine to my house. Exactly one month later they came and picked it up.
I think they would have picked up a case of empty bottles here. :mrgreen:
Wine? What wine? :biggrinjester:

Re: CMP M1 Garand "misdelivered" by FedEx

Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 12:05 pm
by Maxwell
I thought all firearms deliveries needed to go through an FFL. Am I wrong? :headscratch

Re: CMP M1 Garand "misdelivered" by FedEx

Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 12:23 pm
by johncanfield
Maxwell wrote:I thought all firearms deliveries needed to go through an FFL. Am I wrong? :headscratch
I thought I remembered reading somewhere on the forum the CMP can send directly to the end purchaser?

Re: CMP M1 Garand "misdelivered" by FedEx

Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 12:31 pm
by G26ster
johncanfield wrote:
Maxwell wrote:I thought all firearms deliveries needed to go through an FFL. Am I wrong? :headscratch
I thought I remembered reading somewhere on the forum the CMP can send directly to the end purchaser?
Yes, the CMP can, and does, ship directly to you.

Re: CMP M1 Garand "misdelivered" by FedEx

Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 1:47 pm
by Maxwell
OK, I thought I knew all the acronyms but what does CMP stand for? :???:

Re: CMP M1 Garand "misdelivered" by FedEx

Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 2:14 pm
by Pawpaw
Maxwell wrote:OK, I thought I knew all the acronyms but what does CMP stand for? :???:
Civilian Marksmanship Program

Re: CMP M1 Garand "misdelivered" by FedEx

Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 9:59 am
by texanjoker
This is bad. This will be another issue the lib's will use to block another gun related process.

Re: CMP M1 Garand "misdelivered" by FedEx

Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 2:43 pm
by JSThane
Mmmm...

Yes, they can point to this and say "We need more / stricter laws!" And if they knew about it, they not only could, but would.

Standard rebuttal for this is the same as any other rebuttal. Adding more laws does not prevent the breaking of law.
We have laws regulating the shipping of firearms. FedEx has regulations and policies. Multiple pieces of paper had to be disregarded, some willfully, for this to happen already. The gun was reported delivered when it wasn't (or was, to the wrong person). That could be construed to fall under theft of some sort. It showed as signed-for, when it wasn't. So -someone- forged a signature. The firearm may have been delivered to an ineligible person before the error was realized and it was reclaimed for proper delivery. We don't know.

None of the existing law or regulation stopped this. Why would one more, or ten more, stop it?

Re: CMP M1 Garand "misdelivered" by FedEx

Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 8:35 pm
by sookandy
G26ster wrote:
johncanfield wrote:
Maxwell wrote:I thought all firearms deliveries needed to go through an FFL. Am I wrong? :headscratch
I thought I remembered reading somewhere on the forum the CMP can send directly to the end purchaser?
Yes, the CMP can, and does, ship directly to you.
Or if you have a C&R 03 FFL you can have them shipped to you.