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January 11th, 2012, 02:50 AM #1Junior Member
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shipping to a relative in North Carolina
I am gifting a gun that is registered to me legally in PA to my mother who lives in North Carolina. (Mom decided she wants to learn how to shoot)
I want to know if I need to go to an FFL here in PA and have the transfer done through them or if I can ship it directly to her FFL in NC.
I received the shipping information of her local FFL and rangemaster to handle the registration in NC, just curious if I need to do any paperwork here for PA before sending it out.
Thanks in advance, great website you have here!
Bob
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January 11th, 2012, 03:48 AM #2
Re: shipping to a relative in North Carolina
Welcome to the Forum! I found it less expensive and more certain to ship handguns through a local FFL. If one is not an FFL, carriers require that handguns be sent overnight, which could be as high as $70. When shipped through an FFL, the fee charged is usually under $35.00 as their is no overnight requirement.
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January 11th, 2012, 08:17 AM #3
Re: shipping to a relative in North Carolina
To ship the handgun to NC it will have to be received in NC by a FFL. The FFL in NC will then take care of getting it transferred to your mom.
Any non FFL can ship a handgun to any FFL by using a common carrier (UPS and FedEx being the top shippers). However, you need to insure that the FFL in NC will accept a shipment from a non FFL. FFL's do not have to accept from a non FFL, that is their decision.
If the handgun is shipped from an FFL in PA to a FFL in NC, the PA FFL can use USPS (Priority Mail) to send it to NC, the charges are about half that of UPS or FedEx and it only takes a couple days to get there.
Oh, and before someone else brings it up, there is no registry of guns in PA. What you have is a gun that has been recorded in a sales database as being sold to youRon USAF Ret E-8 FFL01/SOT3 NRA Benefactor Member
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January 12th, 2012, 03:58 PM #4Super Member
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Re: shipping to a relative in North Carolina
The other thing you can do is to take the gun yourself to the FFL in NC. Good reason to visit mom!
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January 12th, 2012, 11:30 PM #5
Re: shipping to a relative in North Carolina
There is no registration in NC, just the standard paperwork.
Your mother will have to get a purchase permit from the sheriff of her county to have a handgun transferred to her. Long guns don't need the purchase permit.RIP: SFN, 1861, twoeggsup, Lambo, jamesjo, JayBell, 32 Magnum, Pro2A, mrwildroot, dregan, Frenchy, Fragger, ungawa, Mtn Jack, Grapeshot, R.W.J., PennsyPlinker, Statkowski, Deanimator, roland, aubie515, SteveWag
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