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JungleShooter
How ironic 🤦🏼♂️: All my life I had to be a jack-of-all-trades. And now since getting into airgunning all of a sudden they call me an
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Real Name: Matthias
Re: Visiting the UK- can I bring an airgun back to the USA?
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Reply #20 on:
April 24, 2023, 12:33:38 AM »
Quote from: Yogi on April 15, 2023, 01:50:37 PM
Or reroute you trip and take the ferry to the continent and ship it from
Germany
.
Do not, DO NOT —
DO NOT enter Germany
if you like your airgun hobby. 😱
You'll be entering airgunners' *(&^..... 💀
If you think
the UK is unreasonably strict
with their airgun laws of max. 12FPE — you'll think again hearing that
the German gubermint prohibits any airgun with more than 6FPE power
. —
SIX
foot-pounds!!
You might as well forget airgunning all together.... 😖
No shooting at any animals ever — not even a HOSP in your backyard.
In the UK, you can (comparatively) easy
get a gun license
to go over the 12FPE limit.
But in Germany, they have some many
ludicrous legal loops
you need to jump through (easily costing the price of a PCP), it's virtually not feasible. 😖
So, here's my advice:
▪ Take the gun apart, or pay the gun store to do it for you.
▪ Separate the action from the barrel and the air reservoir. If the grip comes off, better yet.
▪ Pack the action and some other small parts in one suitcase. Pack the barrel and air reservoir in another. If traveling with more than one person, spread the suitcases over several travel companions.
▪ PCP: Of course, make sure the airtube or bottle is empty. Best would be if the tube or bottle was open on one end to allow for a visual inspection, not just a gauge check.
🔸➔
Ordering from Krale in the Netherlands
will cost you between $50 and $100 in shipping. But you won't have to pay sales tax, huge savings.
And most people on the forums report the stuff gets to the US quicker than getting a shipment from PA to their US address....
And most people have not had any hickups with customs (with rare exceptions).
Cheers,
Matthias
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norris
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Re: Visiting the UK- can I bring an airgun back to the USA?
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Reply #21 on:
May 06, 2023, 07:05:06 AM »
Posting guns inside the UK is usually by Parcel Force ( better known here as Parcel Farce).
I’m not ensure today or what is entailed these days but UK shooters could in the past go abroad with their guns of all types.
A certain Micky Andrews back in late 80s/90s went to the USA with his sub twelve AA Shamal and achieved a runner up placing in the American National Field Target Championships.I think he also won the World Field Target Championship in the USA?
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KWK
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Re: Visiting the UK- can I bring an airgun back to the USA?
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May 06, 2023, 01:20:36 PM »
Isn't bureaucracy wonderful?
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