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Last time I was asked what was in the box I said a metal pipe and a chunk of wood. The USPS clerk just smiled. Now that was in small town Montana where the folks are mighty friendly.
Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
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no customs = smuggling...Geo
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ALWAYS check your local laws too. My State does NOT recognize The Gun control act of 1968 and I am required to transfer all guns, antiques, muzzle-loaders, etc....
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John Mann shipped Sterly marked shotgun on the slip, delivered Fedex to my door, no issues.
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Things do get by. Doesn't change the rules...Geo
Are ya feelin lucky; well are ya?
Last edited by Geo. Newbern; 03/30/18 12:20 PM. Reason: added final sentence
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I once had a pre -1898 damascus I. Hollis shipped directly to me from Australia. Gunshop owner there said it was fine. It came to my local post office, where I picked it up. It was in an unmarked cardboard box.
Was that legal?
SRH Stan you scoundrel: If nothing else, you probably beat US Customs out of a few $ import duty.
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Ha!, I was a newbie to it all. The guy on the other end of the phone line, at McDonald's Gunshop, sure sounded like he knew what he was doing. So.................I went along.
SRH
May God bless America and those who defend her.
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Well, pre 1898 is pre 1898. The law is the law. I bought what looks to be a hand-made double 12 bore hammer gun in Quetta in 2008. Islamic inscriptions written on the brass hoops attaching the barrel to the forearm. Separated the parts into two pieces of luggage and carried them back to the USA, no questions asked. What I'd like to do now is find an 1891 16ga Reilly hammergun in UK and do the same thing...or maybe better, go down to Saint-Etienne, find something like this...and just bring it back in the suitcase. 
Baluch are not Brahui, Brahui are Baluch
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I bought my first sxs, an Ithaca SKB Model 150, at the US Navy base in Rota, Spain in 1972. When I returned to the States, I made the mistake of following the law and shipped it back to a gun shop in my hometown. It got stopped by Customs in NY. I managed to liberate it without paying a storage fee, but it took some effort. Back then, no one really knew the ins and outs of the law. My coworker the vice consul in the embassy told me I should have just shipped it home in my household goods.
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They do not do the pre-1898 thing in the UK. A gun is a gun and you need a certificate to take possession if it shoots anything but "obsolete" ammo. a 16 ga 2&1/2" center fire cartridge gun no matter the age is not obsolete in the UK.
Nothing wrong at all in looking for the most cost effective way to get the gun you. Best to know the law though.
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