Interstate transportation of guns and ammo via moving company

[lomalinda]

I am looking at having a moving company (i.e. Mayflower) transport my lawfully owned long guns and ammunition to a state where such items are also legal. From what I've read, this is legal:

http://law.justia.com/us/cfr/title27/27-2.0.1.2.3.3.1.13.html

[Riodog]

It's 100% legal.
However, having been in the business, I don't advise having the moving company move the actual weapons. I've seen too many items 'get lost' in the transfer.
Questions to ask.
Are these movers company drivers or owner/operators?
Is my shipment the only one on the trailer?
Will the trailer be sealed? (padlock don't git it!)
Will the contents be tranferred or put into storage?
Will they be stopping along the way?
What is the exact route?
If there was no other alternative then I would pack them securely and shipped them in a secure gun vault( I don't mean a 3->500. $ or lbs gun safe) with the moving company having no access to the inside contents what-so-ever. Don't forget to insure each and every one with descriptions, serial numbers, and photo's for the exact value and don't take the moving companies word for anything.
There are too many things that can happen to go into here but every imaginable peril is possible.
Rio

[Drew Eckhardt]

I am looking at having a moving company (i.e. Mayflower) transport my lawfully owned long guns and ammunition to a state where such items are also legal. From what I've read, this is legal:

It does't matter what's legal.

What matters is

1) What the common or contract carrier will actually transport. For instance, Fed Ex will tell you to go away when you attempt to legally ship firearms that you own to yourself (they want an FFL at the receiving end) and tell them what you're shipping thus complying with federal law.

2) What happens after that. Things get misplaced in transport. Really sucks especially when the insurance is $0.60 per pound and/or the claim period isn't long enough to get out of temporary housing, buy a home, and have everything delivered.

You need to either make your C&R license current so that you are an FFL and can ship to yourself without violating federal law by skipping the required notification to the shipper after which you use an overnight insured service or put your guns in cases locked with non-TSA locks, go to the airport, and fly them to the destination with an intervening TSA inspection which you personally supervise.