Private unregistered handgun sale across state lines/ Recommended Knoxville area gun shop?

[Guest 6.8 AR]

All firearms are excepted in case of inheritance, not just long guns. The handguns do not have to go to FFL either.

The federal law is quite unspecific beyond that.

The trouble you'll have is that UPS and FedEx will not ship guns over state lines except to license holders, and you can't ship handguns through USPS. You are indeed supposed to notifiy carrier by federal law of any gun shipment NOT going to a license holder. And though it's not federal law, UPS and FedEx both require notification for all firearm shipments according to their TOS. And depending on what idiot clerk you get at USPS, they might not even send rifles interstate if you inform.

From "18 U.S.C. § 922 : US Code - Section 922: Unlawful acts", the private interstate transfer prohibiton does not apply to:

"....the transfer, transportation, or delivery of a firearm made to carry out a bequest of a firearm to, or an acquisition by intestate succession of a firearm by, a person who is permitted to acquire or possess a firearm under the laws of the State of his residence..."

- OS

In other words, if he wants his guns, he best be getting them. I'd say in person if it's a quantity.