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Here's the sitmo:
1) I have a friend whose permanent residence is in Georgia.
2) He was out here (in WA) working with me in a long-term, inter-company staff augmentation/loan.
3) He had to leave in a big hurry last week to go back to Georgia.
4) Turns out he needs to have a major heart operation, and likely will not be returning to WA again.
5) He did not have any time to clean out his apartment and make an "orderly retreat."
6) He was only able to take two of his guns home with him when he left hurriedly last week.
7) He left his Daniel Defense AR-15 and his Glock handgun in the apartment.
8) He will have to move out of the apartment, but won't be here to do so, so his friends will do it.
9) I have access to a key to his apartment, and could rescue the guns, and I have offered to do so.
Here's the conundrum:
How do I send his guns back to him, given the constraints of federal firearms transfer laws, WA State's ludicrous I-594 proscriptions, and any other Draconian rules and regulations of which I may not be aware, and keep myself out of jail or have my gun ownership rights stripped from me, just for helping a brother out of a tight spot?
Please, as much as I enjoy a good laugh as the next guy and am not opposed to razor-sharp humor, and the fact that this situation could be the set-up for several good jokes, only serious replies to this thread, as time has now become of essence.
Yes, CHLChris gets it right. This wasn't about the shipping aspect at all. It was all about how to (legally) get the smokepole and the hogleg out of the abandoned apartment before the housecleaning staff showed up and get them to a FFL for shipment to Georgia. This was all about getting to the shipping process, and not about the shipping process at all.The problem wasn't the issue of the actual shipping. In the end it had as much to do with his process of even taking possession of someone else's guns to even send them in the first place. At first, many people (including me) thought this thread was about the shipping process, but it becomes clear that the legal issues were a little deeper than simply whether to use UPS or USPS or whatever.
I'd sure like to hear an update from @sobo, though. This is a fascinating case!
Say I'm out hunting with you, and we come upon a fence, and I hand my rifle to you to hold for a minute while I climb over the fence. When I hand my rifle to you, and you hand it back to me, we have consummated an "illegal transfer" as defined under this law, and because that's an illegal transfer, we've both just committed a felony.