Receiving a gun after repair

[dhoobler]

Delivery requires an adult signature, meaning you must be there when it shows up at your door.

If it comes by FedEx, you can use the tracking number to have it held at a local FedEx store where you can pick it up at your convenience.

FedEx has no problem taking the money to ship it, but better disarm before you go into their location to pick it up

I have always shipped from an agent that is not 06/07 posted. Now picking up a held item is another story, as that does have to go to a FedEx store.

[Blaize4286]

Had my Smith repaired, and the same gun shipped straight back to my house.
Had a Kahr sent to be repaired, and the frame had to be replaced, and had to be shipped to my FFL
due to the new frame being considered a new gun.

[Bitter Clinger]

Delivery requires an adult signature, meaning you must be there when it shows up at your door.

If it comes by FedEx, you can use the tracking number to have it held at a local FedEx store where you can pick it up at your convenience.

Just had my wife's Sig Sauer repaired by the factory. Sig's instructions said that it would be returned by FedEx to our home address and required an adult signature. Sig cautioned that it could NOT be held by FedEx and if undeliverable, would be returned to Sig. Sig went on to explain that if returned by FedEx, it could only be re-shipped to an FFL. Fortunately, we were home to sign for the package.

After sending my Spfld XDs in via FedEx for recall trigger repair I had it returned to local Fedex store where they held it for pick-up / signature.

[Solaris]

IF they replace your gun instead of repair, will need an FFL.

Not true. A gunsmith or manufacturer can return a replacement firearm with a different serial number to you without a 4473 and NICS check.

Anything you send back to the factory can come directly back to you no matter what comes back. If the manufacturer or smith is requiring an FFL transfer to return it, they're either being overly cautious or they're getting a kickback from the transfer :)

Correct. ask anyone who got a Glock frame replaced when they had the rail problem. Those guns all came back with new SNs. Now, some states may not allow it, but at the Federal Level it is 100% legal. And Texas allows it.

[rotor]

Taurus replaced my gun with a new gun, shipped to FFL which required a FFL fee and Taurus reimbursed me. Because it was a new gun with a new serial number had to do all the paperwork. Ruger repaired a rifle and shipped the repaired same rifle directly to my home.

still not true, no matter how many anecdotes show up :) There's no law requiring paperwork in that case.

27 CFR 478.124(a) states that a 4473 is not required when returning to the same person either a repaired firearm or a replacement firearm. sending a changed serial back through an FFL is not required by law. Doesn't mean they won't force you to do it, things being what they are these days.

Good on Taurus for reimbursing you!

I am not stating that there is a legal requirement only that Taurus refused to send me the new gun directly and insisted that it go through a FFL. I could not argue with them about it. Got a new gun as part of the Taurus recall and after months of delay I am happy with the new Taurus. So, regardless of what the law says different gun companies may do different things.

[striker55]

In the 80's I shot in IHMSA, had to return my Sturm Ruger 357 for repair (my fault). After waiting I called them because I was shooting in a state shoot the next weekend. To my surprise it came the next day, they overnighted it to me. Ruger fan for life!

[JALLEN]

My P7M8 broke a little black doohickey in the inards and wouldn't shoot one Saturday. I called HK on Monday, shipped it Fedex overnight air (required) to HK in Georgia or Alabama on Tuesday, received a telephone call Wednesday mid day that the gun was repaired, cleaned and serviced, and would be arriving back to me on Thursday. It did, along with the check I had sent for return shipping. I don't see how you can do better than this.

[FCH]

... So, regardless of what the law says different gun companies may do different things.

I think rotor got it right.

[couzin]

S&W replaced a 360PD with a new one for me and sent it directly to my house. There was a piece of paper in the shipment noting the old serial number destroyed and the replacement number.