r/canadaguns • u/Matthewbryant03 • Feb 20 '26
Shipping Handguns
Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone’s had experience with a similar situation to mine and can share some info. I called the CFO and he said to ask the guys at the CFP, after calling them they said it’s a CFO issue and now I can’t get through to the CFO again so I figured in the meantime I’d ask here. I’m from Ontario, I have a handgun registered to an address here but I recently got a job in Calgary starting in March. I don’t have a solid address there yet and would be doing some apartment hunting when I get there. Right now it looks like I’d be getting an Airbnb for about a month till I find something more solid. I plan on shipping my guns to myself through Canada post and driving through the states as I have some business to conduct in Montana on the way. My question is whether I need separate ATTs to go to the post office and then to my temporary address or if I can get an ATT to the new address then just send it through Canada post? Any help or advice is welcome, thanks in advance.
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u/PT6A-27 Feb 21 '26
Do you really want to trust Canada Post with shipping something that is essentially irreplaceable? Let’s say something happens and it goes missing - at best, you’re going to get covered for the replacement value of the handgun. Unless you’re one of the very few people who has an exemption from the Bill C-21 transfer ban, you’re never going to be able to get that handgun back, no matter how much money they give you. Given our current political climate, I would exhaust every other option before putting any handgun in the mail - even if I had to drive all the way to Calgary directly, and then make the trip to Montana at a later date.