Thread: Requesting Suggestions for Rifle Shipping

Originally Posted by Sidetrack

Pretty sure this is not correct. A police form is a confirmation of a valid FAL when not dealing person to person. When you present the firearm over the counter, the staff can verify your actual license.

Legally that may be the case, but I know every gunshop that I have sent through required the form before they accepted it. They need to know the recipient purchaser has a FAL. It may sound silly but the reasoning is if they dont and you send the firearm- It arrives and the buyer doesn't have a license- they cannot hand over the firearm to them...and WHO gets the flak? Who does the buyer get angry with? I can tell you it is not the seller all the way up in AKL...It is the poor guy behind the counter because the firearm is there in the store. And next - What do they do with a firearm they dont own?

It actually why a lot of stores didnt want to be involved - there were instances of the buyer demanding a refund from the store when they decided it wasn't what they wanted....or being asked to fix it when they never sold it to start with....

I think there needs to be some gratitude towards business that have stepped up and are doing this. I know its not cheap, but we do need these businesses to stay in business because without them our sport really takes a hit...