does anyone have experience on bringing magazines back from abroad? i'm travelling from the US to a foreign land and i was wondering if i was able to bring back disassembled magazines for personal use.
bringing back from abroad
does anyone have experience on bringing magazines back from abroad? i'm travelling from the US to a foreign land and i was wondering if i was able to bring back disassembled magazines for personal use.
You can sure try but legally this would be considered arms smuggling without doing the right customs paperwork and filling out the right forms.
Dont get caught lol there's a reason most bakes in the US come in multiple packages with falsified paperwork calling them auto parts or model train components.
Similar to what said. Ship them back don't bring them back. Two packages. One with springs/follower/base plate. One with the shells. Call them something unimpressive on the manifest. Don't ship more than ~3 in a package set.
would an international airport have like a DHL where i can be able to do that? country i am visiting is in southeast asia.
Buddy if these are the questions you're asking then I'm not sure international arms smuggling is for you.
Enjoy prison lol.
lol what really
a friend of mine bought me a bakelite for my birthday off carolina shooter supply
Yeah lol
They've been banned from import by sanction since 2014 lol every bake that's come into the country since then has come in illegally.
It's just one of those things, ATF can't prove provenance once it's in the country, can't prove that it's not a "pre-ban," so id you can get it into the states it's fair game.
Unironically the main way people do this is by having a contact in eastern europe who ships them "model train parts."
The best and cheapest way to get bakes before putin chimped out last year was to make friends with a dude on facebook named dmitry or whatever that you met in some gear trading group and he'd send you the shit for significantly less than US retailers were selling them for.
interesting, thanks for explaining, so does that mean all the US sellers are technically breaking laws by importing them?
am i allowed to save that image if i own a bake mag
Wouldn't non-Russian Federation sourced bakelite mags be fine? They have them all over the former Warsaw pact still. And it would also be on the jannies to prove it actually came from Russia.
Wait so they dropship shit from overseas that's isn't legal?
How am I supposed to know what is is here already and legal and overseas surplus that is overpriced and illegal?
I don't want to get in trouble cause someone wants to garden gnome me.
Man wait until you guys hear about how dudes are getting AK12 and russian Vityaz kits lol
The AK market has always had this sketchy greymarket aspect to it, particularly for non-serialized peripheral components. Right now one of the only ways to buy authentic zenitco furniture and accessories is to have the retailer ship it to a neutral third country which then repackages and ships the stuff to you with falsified customs papers.
Shit even before the latest sanctions every full-power zenitco IR designator I bought would say some shit like “flashlight“ on the customs paperwork lol.
>so does that mean all the US sellers are technically breaking laws by importing them?
Probably, yeah, but again a lot of this operates in a gray area. Realistically a lot of the mags were coming in from other former soviet countries either officially or unofficially, Ukraine for instance was a popular one, but they were all made in Russia and therefore the lion's share of the stockpiles are in Russia. Additionally the 2014 sanctions specifically banned russian-made magazines regardless of country of origin but it's complicated if you're getting it from oleg from kyiv instead of igor from moscow, even if yes, technically still illegal and banned from import. The ATF and customs don't seem that worried about it and all in all it seems to be small potatoes, worst case scenario shipment here or there gets siezed.
This is opposed to say something like OP trying to literally walk one through multiple airports which would be very, very stupid lol.
>am i allowed to save that image if i own a bake mag
It says it costs $140 right there anon. It's museum grade.
they won't let you take it on a plane, even disassembled
They don't search checked bags do they? You obviously aren't going to get them on carry-on but it's my understanding at least with domestic flights they toss the checked bags on without searching or they may do an x-ray in the back just to check for bomb stuff. But weapons are allowed on checked bags, firearms you have to declare so they can ensure they're properly locked but I've had trouble with the TSA purposely making me miss flights over checked firearms so I don't declare then anymore, just check the bag and go. If they have an issue they can call me up and I'll act like I didn't know.
My buddy brought an ak drum back fron china in his luggage one time, no one cared.
why would you even bother trying to do this?
bakelite mags aren't that expensive vs risking legal issues
i want the rare chink ones.
Good luck finding them, in China proper you might find some mags in grungier flea markets like the dirt market in Beijing. But finding anything actually gun related is tough let alone something rare. Might be different in other sea countries though.
If I wanted to bring something like that back and was worried about airline I'd buy a cheap airsoft gun with similar mags and look at the packaging on spare mags. Then I'd fake that packaging as much as I felt like on all the real mags, put them and the airshit still in box in my checked luggage with other souvenirs. Then I would ponder if ladyboys were gay or not.
they are and it's okay