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UPS moves to stop carrying shipments of firearms suppressors
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Industry groups are working with United Parcel Service to reverse its recent decision to no longer ship registered Title II suppressors, even in cases where the items are going from dealer to dealer.
UPS, commonly also referred to as Brown, is the world’s largest package delivery service and has its headquarters in Georgia. However, among its more than 15 million packages delivered each day will no longer be suppressors, apparently over concerns of compliance issues. |
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Millwright66
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While I would like to give UPS the benefit of the doubt, the statement published by its spokesperson vis a vis is "policies" put that in grave jeopardy. His documented use of the term "silencer" as justification is false to fact. Firearms "silencers" don't exist ! At best, with specially-designed arms and ammunition, they can only be accurately described as 'high-efficientcy sound suppressors'. They in no way equate to "suppressors"
in common use that attenuate noise associate with 'muzzle blast' common to any firearm.
The UPS position poses grave implications for interstate commerce. Can UPS - or any other shipper - ban shipping of machine tools, or tooling because they may be used to manufacture firearms/accessories ? |
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