I could very well be wrong, but the whole deal seems to be what the seller wants to believe he must do. If pre-1899 it can be sent directly to you, so there's nobody else involved. I had a gun sent from Australia straight to me by USPS. Seller said it was 1898 and that nobody would challenge that. They didn't. How could they have? There was nothing on the package exterior to indicate that it was a gun.

All this stuff is so confusing to me.

SRH

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