r/canadaguns • u/Accomplished-Beat779 • Mar 02 '26
Application / Regulation advice Is anyone shipping in hard cases?
As title, as per Canada Post regs they want a trigger lock AND locked in a secure container. This would add $60 minimum to shipping cost ( 2 locks and a cheap case). How are people shipping their online-sold firearms?
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u/IceWide6245 Mar 02 '26
Cardboard box and a zip tie, I've never had anything delivered in a hard case. The 590a1 I received a few months ago didn't even have a trigger lock on it
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u/Hell-Let-Loose00 Mar 02 '26
I've bought from every retailer imaginable, nobody ships in hard cases, and very few ship with locks or bolts removed.
CP doesn't check when shipping, but you need to say 19+ signature required to accept the package.
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Mar 03 '26
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u/prosper_0 Mar 03 '26
nope. I've asked some of the online sellers if there's an option to ship to the post office for pickup, because otherwise they're so lax about security and signatures. Don't want it to be delivered to the neighbours, or left on the doorstep. Hold it at the office and send me a card or an e-mail.... doesn't seem to be an option though. It's kinda wild really, when you consider all the noise about securing guns and keeping them off the streets
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Mar 03 '26
Its an option, you specify CARD FOR PICKUP and its held at your closest Canada post outlet
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u/black_covfefe_please Mar 02 '26
My recent online purchase from a shop was just shipped in a box with padding. Literally no security measures. And I'm ok with that. It it was stolen, a trigger lock or whatever just adds a few minutes for the thief, and probably result in cosmetic damage.
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u/EvilWhiteVanMan Mar 02 '26
I've had one retailer ship me a used firearm in a hard case. All other firearms were always shipped in their original box or wrapped up and taped up in bubble wrap, it never caused any issues.
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u/GinnAdvent Mar 02 '26
This is just my personal experience. Most of if not all of retailers all over Canada send them in the box that came with firearm. Or they just cardboard box it.
About 50 percent of them come with a cheaper trigger lock or zip tie, while most of them have no locks.
There were only 3 instances where they come with a case in my collection.
Because the firearms comes with one, the store ships with one coz the firearm is expensive.
I would recommend a case for expensive firearm.
I was very upset when I see the charging handle and the barrel that sticks out of the cardboard boxes coz they pack it too tight. And those are over $2900 and $3500 respectively.
One has a minor scuff damage that I had to take it to a gun shop for repair but at least the company honor the repair and refund the amount.
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u/Anonymous_Arthur00 Mar 02 '26
Phhhhuck no
Just sold a rifle last week
Bought a dirt cheap $10 Huntshield lock at canadian tire and added it onto the shipping costs
Shipped it inside an old Winchester box i got from the FLGS, just had to cut the foam a bit and voila
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u/goodfleance Mar 03 '26
I had a guy ship me a gun in a hard case but I've never sent one like that. They charge by weight AND dimensions so it'll up the cost like crazy. I usually make a double layer box from scrap cardboard and tape it up strong, then walk into Shoppers and send it.
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u/swift_gilford Mar 02 '26
No one ships guns, they ship baseball bats and golf clubs.
for legal reasons, this is a joke.
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u/Beginning-Marzipan28 Mar 02 '26
What legal reasons?
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u/swift_gilford Mar 03 '26
the fact that there is a legal requirement and method to ship firearms in the mail.
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u/Beginning-Marzipan28 Mar 03 '26
We all ship guns legally so I don’t get the joke
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u/swift_gilford Mar 03 '26
There have been numerous posts here, and in other forums about how people do not declare what they are actually sending.
It's not that deep.
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Mar 03 '26
There is no requirement to declare to a postal employee what's in the box. You however must declare the box contains no hazardous goods and its legally mailable matter
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u/MourningWood1942 Mar 02 '26
I keep those Mickey Mouse plastic trigger locks that come with new rifles and ship it with that in a cardboard box
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u/King-Moses666 Mar 02 '26
Or even just bolts removed from the bolt action rifles.
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u/LtDig Mar 02 '26
And then in a cardboard box
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u/King-Moses666 Mar 02 '26
Nahh in wrapping paper with random bits of scrap added to make it look like guitars or hockey sticks.
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u/flstcjay Mar 03 '26
I’ve purchased a few guns online from cabelas. That always come in taped cardboard boxes with those cheap trigger locks.
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u/MindYaBiznessMmk Mar 02 '26
Canada Post doesn’t need to know what you are shipping.
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u/Accomplished-Beat779 Mar 02 '26
I guess that's true eh, my concern would be if it got damaged and they refused the insurance
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u/MacintoshEddie Mar 02 '26
That pretty much just means package it properly. Don't stick it in a plastic bag to flop around, or mail it in a gun sock.
Use some decent cardboard and enough tape that it's not going to fall apart.
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u/prosper_0 Mar 03 '26
When I sell a gun online, I usually zip tie the trigger, and wrap the whole thing in shrink wrap and some rags. Then I construct a cardboard box - usually make a frame out of scrap wood (as in, rip a 2x4 into 3/4"x3/4" sticks) and staple cardboard or boxboard to the frame. Then I wrap the whole thing in brown paper and a bunch of tape. Takes maybe half an hour to package up a rifle.
When I bought and sold a lot of guns, I'd hang onto the boxes and re-use them, but I ain't got room to hoard cardboard these days.
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Mar 04 '26
Lots of misinformation in this thread. All the REAL steps to mail a gun are on the Canada Post website.
https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/support/articles/non-mailable-matter/firearms.page
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u/Hungry-East-2666 Mar 04 '26
Sounds like many are mailing not in accordance with current Canada Post regulations.
The information to mail a gun without any issues is on the Canada Post Website. Its really quite simple.
https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/support/articles/non-mailable-matter/firearms.page
There is no need tovdeclarevtge package contents, just that it is not dangerous goods.
Stores have different rules, hence no trigger locks.
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u/Low-HangingFruit Mar 02 '26
Has to be a sturdy container.
Cardboard is sturdy and is what stores ship there guns in.