Posting an air pistol

[Mr.Fixit-Norm]

Gases, including flammable, non-flammable, toxic and compressed gases (including new, used and empty gas cylinders, ethane, butane, refills for lighters, fire extinguishers and scuba tanks, life jackets, nitrogen dioxide and carbon dioxide canisters including culinary foaming devices & soda stream)

All flammable compressed gases are prohibited* e.g. blowlamps; butane; lighters and refills containing flammable liquid or gas; ethane; gas cylinders for camping stoves; hydrogen; methane and propane.
All toxic compressed gases are prohibited* e.g. chlorine; fluorine etc.
All non-flammable compressed gases are prohibited* e.g. air bags; scuba tanks, carbon dioxide; fire extinguishers; neon and nitrogen.
Empty cylinders that are sealed so that residual gas under pressure are prohibited, only those cylinders which are open to the atmosphere for inspection are permitted
*includes new, used and empty gas cylinders


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If it has a buddy bottle or removeable cylinder and the valve is out and open to the atmosphere then it can be sent .

But this is under the sporting guns :

Air weapons with an integral gas cylinder that are de-pressurised can only be accepted.

That should cover a precharged air rifle or in this case air pistol which does not contain any air - I’ve just this morning emptied it, took about 40 shots to totally empty it so that there’s no air out of the barrel when cocked and the trigger pulled

Norm

[bighit]

But this is under the sporting guns :

Air weapons with an integral gas cylinder that are de-pressurised can only be accepted.

That should cover a precharged air rifle or in this case air pistol which does not contain any air - I’ve just this morning emptied it, took about 40 shots to totally empty it so that there’s no air out of the barrel when cocked and the trigger pulled

Norm

Correct but some people will dismantle the guns to get the package size smaller so if the rifle or pistol has a removable cylinder/buddy bottle then they will remove it .

They may not remove the valve and it then goes to Belfast for inspection and if found to be prohibited then it may be destroyed .

People that leave a Co2 full of empty have found this to their cost .

[bighit]

There was a post on another forum where one of the members told another member to send 15 or so co2 cartridges through the post or a courier as no one checks and because other companies post them to you by mail or a courier then its legal for a private seller to do so and he said the going to Belfast thing was a myth despite two others saying their airguns were in Belfast at that present time .

People forget that the public can't post thing like companies can due to trade accounts.

[Mr.Fixit-Norm]

Well that worked well, I posted the air pistol to it’s new owner on Saturday at 12.30pm, using Royal Mail 48 tracked and signed for. It arrived at its destination today, with a very pleased recipient

I bought the postage on the RM online site, with a 3.5kg parcel costing £10.91, which I didn’t think was too bad, especially now considering the service !

I did mention to the girl at our local RM sorting office what was in the parcel and she was fine with it, confirmed it was perfectly ok to send ( I already knew but just to be sure.... )

Sorted

Norm

[WebleyWombler]

I take it your initial search didn't find the sticky post by Garvin at the top of the sales section?

[Mr.Fixit-Norm]

I take it your initial search didn't find the sticky post by Garvin at the top of the sales section?

That’s odd, I don’t remember seeing that ? I must admit I always think of Parcelforce when I think of sending airguns, and knowing how some of these rules can change I decided in the end to thoroughly scrutinise the RM & PF websites, and go from there.

I was probably worrying unnecessarily but it’s better to be over cautious as there’s often a lot of misinformation about.


Norm

[Tomj]

I’m
Looking into this Myself As I’d Like to Order From Abroad.