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jhm Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1595 Location: georgia Joined: Sep 4^th, 2011	How to ship loaded ammunition Jan 11^th, 2025 at 5:56am	Print Post
	I have found a small stash of antique ammunition in my friends estate. Have to go through it and clean it up and segregate it. Question is can and how would you ship it if I were to sell it in our buy sell trade forum? JMH


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JKR Junior Member Offline Posts: 65 Joined: Nov 2^nd, 2021	Re: How to ship loaded ammunition Reply #1 - Jan 11^th, 2025 at 7:13am	Print Post
	I sold some ammunition for a friend who was moving and didn’t want to take it with him. I had to take it to a UPS depot for the proper labeling. USPS won’t ship ammunition.


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bpjack Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2901 Location: East Olympia, WA Joined: May 18^th, 2008	Re: How to ship loaded ammunition Reply #2 - Jan 11^th, 2025 at 9:30am	Print Post
	There are instructions on the UPS sure for label requirements.

	ASSRA # 11318 just a bit of a hoot.
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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16448 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: How to ship loaded ammunition Reply #3 - Jan 11^th, 2025 at 11:16am	Print Post
	I ship it UPS and it just takes the proper label. Since UPS has stopped allowing us to take packages to their main depots last year, it now goes to any UPS store. I'm uncertain if those stores have the correct labels as the depots had? So you might need to print off a copy of the label and glue it to your packages. Here's their instructions, with a picture of the black & white label at the link: (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links)

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waterman Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2855 Location: Behind the Redwood Curtain Joined: Jun 9^th, 2004	Re: How to ship loaded ammunition Reply #4 - Jan 11^th, 2025 at 2:08pm	Print Post
	marlinguy wrote on Jan 11^th, 2025 at 11:16am: I ship it UPS and it just takes the proper label. Since UPS has stopped allowing us to take packages to their main depots last year, it now goes to any UPS store. I'm uncertain if those stores have the correct labels as the depots had? So you might need to print off a copy of the label and glue it to your packages. Here's their instructions, with a picture of the black & white label at the link: (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links) I didn't follow the link, but what about to or from California?


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burntwater Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 423 Location: Michigan Joined: Feb 5^th, 2018	Re: How to ship loaded ammunition Reply #5 - Jan 11^th, 2025 at 2:52pm	Print Post
	I can tell you for a fact that not all UPS stores will ship loaded ammo. There are three UPS stores where I live and two flat out refuse ammo and are anti gun and rather rude about the whole thing. They are franchised businesses so they can do as they please. So call ahead Rick


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16448 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: How to ship loaded ammunition Reply #6 - Jan 11^th, 2025 at 4:15pm	Print Post
	burntwater wrote on Jan 11^th, 2025 at 2:52pm: I can tell you for a fact that not all UPS stores will ship loaded ammo. There are three UPS stores where I live and two flat out refuse ammo and are anti gun and rather rude about the whole thing. They are franchised businesses so they can do as they please. So call ahead Rick Same here, and it's not just ammo I've had issues with at some hub stores. I talked with a young guy at one of the "area stores" after UPS closed their main depot to the public, and he gave me a list of the 4 regional district stores in town that covered N-S-E & W areas. He said whatever the depot used to accept will be fine at those stores, but others might have individuals who'll give me grief. I had one UPS store that wouldn't accept some return auto parts unless they shipped them! I told the woman that UPS had delivered the parts to me in those exact same boxes, and why would that change on a return? She finally gave in and took them. I think she was simply trying to charge more for her to repack the parts.

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db Participating Member Offline Posts: 30 Location: Northern Indiana Joined: Dec 26^th, 2011	Re: How to ship loaded ammunition Reply #7 - Jan 27^th, 2025 at 12:07am	Print Post
	If things haven't changed (famous last words.....). You can schedule a UPS pickup.


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KaiserKong Junior Member Offline Posts: 73 Joined: Apr 26^th, 2022	Re: How to ship loaded ammunition Reply #8 - Jan 28^th, 2025 at 12:17pm	Print Post
	I didn't follow the link, but what about to or from California? [/quote] California is really tricky - I haven't bought any ammo since 2018 here since they passed new laws (thankfully it doesn't apply to components). To legally have ammunition shipped to you in CA you need to have a federal FFL (C&R counts) and a California state issued Certificate of Eligibility (COE). I've only had the former so can't have ammo shipped to me anymore. So if you're in my boat then you need to have the ammo shipped to a dealer (who has those licenses) and they usually charge a $50 transfer fee, which makes it totally not worth it unless you're ordering a lot of ammo. To be eligible to take the ammo home from the dealer you also have to register and clear a background check (which also has a fee to it). So ya if you want to ship to CA better pull the components - dump the powder and ship it as reloading components. -Dave


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16448 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: How to ship loaded ammunition Reply #9 - Jan 28^th, 2025 at 5:10pm	Print Post
	KaiserKong wrote on Jan 28^th, 2025 at 12:17pm: I didn't follow the link, but what about to or from California? California is really tricky - I haven't bought any ammo since 2018 here since they passed new laws (thankfully it doesn't apply to components). To legally have ammunition shipped to you in CA you need to have a federal FFL (C&R counts) and a California state issued Certificate of Eligibility (COE). I've only had the former so can't have ammo shipped to me anymore. So if you're in my boat then you need to have the ammo shipped to a dealer (who has those licenses) and they usually charge a $50 transfer fee, which makes it totally not worth it unless you're ordering a lot of ammo. To be eligible to take the ammo home from the dealer you also have to register and clear a background check (which also has a fee to it). So ya if you want to ship to CA better pull the components - dump the powder and ship it as reloading components. -Dave [/quote] With the strict regulations on ammo purchases sold to Ca. residents I personally wouldn't try to ship any ammo into Ca. until I was 100% sure it met their rules. But not sure why shipping out of Ca. wouldn't be OK? Again it might be best to check Ca. rules first.

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