Shipping to CALIFORNIA

[Guest Orionsic]

Has anyone shipped a legal pistol off to California? You know, the ones on the non-restrictive list... Fill me in on the skinny.

[Guest Verbal Kint]

Sending one to a buyer? Or back for repair? Should be no different than any other FFL-to-FFL transfer across state lines.

[DaveTN]

California is different, that’s why a lot of sellers won’t ship there. After I checked myself as best you can, I would email the FFL a description of the gun and ask him to return your email confirming that it is legal for him to receive.

Other than that you have the same shipper restrictions and notifications as shipping a handgun to any FFL.

[Guest bkelm18]

NVM

Edited December 28, 2009 by bkelm18

[Guest bkelm18]

Ok, just googled it. Long story short, you as an individual cannot ship a firearm to CA. Only FFL dealers can ship to CA, and they have to register with the CA DoJ and they have to obtain a firearm shipment approval number for each shipment.

Frequently Asked Questions - California Firearms Licensee Check system (CFLC) - Bureau of Firearms - California Dept. of Justice - Office of the Attorney General

Edit: Upon further reading, Verbal K is right, it really should be no different if you ship it yourself. The new laws apply to FFLs.

Edited December 28, 2009 by bkelm18

[Guest HexHead]

I wouldn't ship it to CA. People there don't deserve to have guns. Let them stew in their own juices.

[Guest Moody]

I wouldn't ship it to CA. People there don't deserve to have guns. Let them stew in their own juices.

While I agree with your sentiments (as far as the Liberal Majority of Self-Serving individuals that populate that state), there are some people in CA that are stuck there (my friend John, being one of them), whom hate the way that their Second Amendment Rights have been... ahem, amended, and also the fact that they cannot seem to do anything about it.

California sucks, but some of the folks in the hills (not Los Angeles hills) and rural areas are just like those that are in TX, NM, and OK/KS. Still sucks for them, though...

The rest of them (you know the ones that I'm talking about) can fall off into the ocean... I hate that they believe that they can impact our rights, across this country, because of their "believed purpose" as one of our 50 states.

[mk19]

What are you trying to send, let me know and i'll help you out. PM me or hit up in here.

I used to manage a FFL in Ca so i know i few things about Ca law.

[trblmkr13]

Nothing like buying a new gun and picking it up 2 weeks later

[Guest HexHead]

While I agree with your sentiments (as far as the Liberal Majority of Self-Serving individuals that populate that state), there are some people in CA that are stuck there (my friend John, being one of them), whom hate the way that their Second Amendment Rights have been... ahem, amended, and also the fact that they cannot seem to do anything about it.

California sucks, but some of the folks in the hills (not Los Angeles hills) and rural areas are just like those that are in TX, NM, and OK/KS. Still sucks for them, though...

The rest of them (you know the ones that I'm talking about) can fall off into the ocean... I hate that they believe that they can impact our rights, across this country, because of their "believed purpose" as one of our 50 states.

I don't cut them any slack. People have choices. I left CA 20 years ago, because I didn't want to raise my family there.

[Guest HexHead]

Nothing like buying a new gun and picking it up 2 weeks later

Wait until 2011 and you have to give fingerprints just to buy a box of ammo.

[strickj]

Hex, this wasn't a debate thread on why California sucks chicken nads.

The OP ask a question about shipping...

[Guest Orionsic]

Well, after several phone calls, I found a place in the boro that will do the research and paperwork for $40, then ship it. $40 paperwork charge = bogus.

[GLOCKMEISTER]

When Cal. changed their law we looked into it because before it happened we actually shipped several guns out there via auction sales, but now no way its too many hoops and too much liability to mess with.

If a Californian wants to own a gun they need to move away.

[Guest Orionsic]

Hell, Id sell to California. They're buying.

[GLOCKMEISTER]

its not worth the time and effort to get approval for the sale. By the time i sell one to Cali, that effort could sell three somewhere else.