UPS won't deliver suppressors?!

[Emperor]

Don't know why you guys are all upset. This is copied from the UPS website: Note: Receivers or frames of a firearm are considered *firearms* and are accepted for transportation only if shipped in accordance with UPS’s requirements for shipping firearms; firearm mufflers and silencers are not accepted for transportation.
No where does it say they won't ship a suppressor.

Well here is the way it is worded in the OP link's article.

The following excerpt appears on UPS.com:


UPS accepts firearm parts for shipment, provided the part is not a ‘firearm’ as defined under federal law; the contents of the package cannot be assembled to form a firearm; and the package otherwise complies with federal, state, and local law. (Note: Receivers or frames of a firearm are considered *firearms* and are accepted for transportation only if shipped in accordance with UPS’s requirements for shipping firearms; firearm mufflers and silencers are not accepted for transportation.)

 

[nolaradio]

Well here is the way it is worded in the OP link's article.

The following excerpt appears on UPS.com:


UPS accepts firearm parts for shipment, provided the part is not a ‘firearm’ as defined under federal law; the contents of the package cannot be assembled to form a firearm; and the package otherwise complies with federal, state, and local law. (Note: Receivers or frames of a firearm are considered *firearms* and are accepted for transportation only if shipped in accordance with UPS’s requirements for shipping firearms; firearm mufflers and silencers are not accepted for transportation.)

Do you see the word "suppressor" anywhere in there? Neither do I. Yes, I am playing semantics. Maybe that is how rcm192 received his shipment. It might have been declared as "suppressors". Just saying.

 

[Emperor]

Do you see the word "suppressor" anywhere in there? Neither do I. Yes, I am playing semantics. Maybe that is how rcm192 received his shipment. It might have been declared as "suppressors". Just saying.

Would I be surprised if UPS Executives or UPS policy makers had no clue as to what any of this stuff was regardless of what it was called?

Nope!

 

[nolaradio]

Would I be surprised if UPS Executives or UPS policy makers had no clue as to what any of this stuff was regardless of what it was called?

Nope!

You're probably right about that. You could declare ti a flux capacitor and they wouldn't know what they were looking at.

 

[machinedrummer]

When UPS became a traded company it all went down hill. It was a much better company to work for back in the good old days.

 

[Pale Horse]

Update: http://www.guns.com/2015/06/05/brown-does-suppressors-ups-revises-policy-on-shipping-silencers/

 

[Magdump]

Update: http://www.guns.com/2015/06/05/brown-does-suppressors-ups-revises-policy-on-shipping-silencers/

From the mention of numbers and suppressors being legal in 40 states, it would appear that the primary appeal for UPS to quickly reverse their decision was simply about money. The profiteers obviously looked at those facts, slapped their palm to their forehead and said, "WTF were we thinking?!"