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Discussion => Shipping => Topic started by: treebeard on January 15, 2012, 01:13 am

Title: Weapons Shipping
Post by: treebeard on January 15, 2012, 01:13 am
is this feasible, and merely a bit more expensive than shipping drugs?

I see some talk about weapons sales here on the forums,
but I have yet to really see any evidence of these types of transactions happening as publicly as the SR drug trade. 

Is it a farce?
Title: Re: Weapons Shipping
Post by: novocaine on January 15, 2012, 01:21 am
I have often wondered the same thing.
Title: Re: Weapons Shipping
Post by: RickyRango on January 15, 2012, 03:04 am
Well it's more challenging than shipping drugs if that's what you're asking.
Title: Re: Weapons Shipping
Post by: tordemon on January 15, 2012, 04:19 am
I'd think pretty much anything could be shipped, just shipping larger weapons like that would be a little more difficult.
Title: Re: Weapons Shipping
Post by: SuperDimitri on January 15, 2012, 04:30 am
I would imagine larger weapons would be broken down. There IS a weaponry section, but it's all pretty pathetic. Throwing stars and whatnot.
Oh shit, I guess there's some old RPG launchers for sale now, huh? Hhmmm. Anyone selling RPG's? Then the gun is useless. Good luck finding those!
Title: Re: Weapons Shipping
Post by: treebeard on January 15, 2012, 09:55 pm
yeah it's rare that I see anything too worthwhile on the weaponry board.

would be sweet to see things like lightning links, auto sears, suppressors, etc..
Title: Re: Weapons Shipping
Post by: Tranzshipper on January 16, 2012, 07:28 pm
guns parts shipped a lot, not necessary from TOR based sellers. many legit businesses, who trade gun's parts will ship parts concealed. some services can offer exactly the gun which you may want. suppressors too factory made and garage made of same quality as factory. if you need barrel can be threaded for suppressor. problem here is to find right  people willing to do that.
Title: Re: Weapons Shipping
Post by: Lil Coner on January 16, 2012, 08:46 pm
it can be done but its a crap shoot. It all boils down to tricking the guy sitting at the x ray monitor. He only has a few seconds to find a gun in a package or something that looks suspicious. I have many guns and a sellers account but considering how risky it is I would want most of the money upfront. Other people that sell guns overseas will be the same way, which is probably why we dont see many guns for sale.
Title: Re: Weapons Shipping
Post by: Cgault on January 16, 2012, 10:02 pm
I was really wanting a Taser from vendor Rickyrango, but I don't see how it can get through screening if they are looking for wires and circuitry? Of course, lots of CE stuff has wires and circuit boards?

Any one have experience with Rickrango? Want that Taser.
Title: Re: Weapons Shipping
Post by: tordemon on January 16, 2012, 11:12 pm
Are we talking domestic or international here?

I didn't think they would be x-raying things domestically. Would that even be legal? I wouldn't be too surprised to find out if they were, internationally. I'd think that domestically it wouldn't be too difficult to disguise something like a taser as an electronics purchase from some electronics website. International issues might be a little more difficult, but I'd think you'd be able to hide it in another metal object, ie maybe a hard drive/cheap laptop etc.

Then again, I'm not very knowledgeable about all of this. Is there somebody selling weapons that would be able to update us at all on how that works?
Title: Re: Weapons Shipping
Post by: treebeard on January 17, 2012, 12:54 am
guns parts shipped a lot, not necessary from TOR based sellers. many legit businesses, who trade gun's parts will ship parts concealed. some services can offer exactly the gun which you may want. suppressors too factory made and garage made of same quality as factory. if you need barrel can be threaded for suppressor. problem here is to find right  people willing to do that.

indeed. 

is it possible to conceal the shipment of 'illegal' weaponry by disguising it as legal parts?

it can be done but its a crap shoot. It all boils down to tricking the guy sitting at the x ray monitor. He only has a few seconds to find a gun in a package or something that looks suspicious. I have many guns and a sellers account but considering how risky it is I would want most of the money upfront. Other people that sell guns overseas will be the same way, which is probably why we dont see many guns for sale.

if this is true then it's definitely a legitimate hurdle to the practice of weapons' shipping
Title: Re: Weapons Shipping
Post by: Tranzshipper on January 17, 2012, 07:35 am
guns parts shipped a lot, not necessary from TOR based sellers. many legit businesses, who trade gun's parts will ship parts concealed. some services can offer exactly the gun which you may want. suppressors too factory made and garage made of same quality as factory. if you need barrel can be threaded for suppressor. problem here is to find right  people willing to do that.

indeed. 

is it possible to conceal the shipment of 'illegal' weaponry by disguising it as legal parts?


I've got two rifle barrels labelled as machine parts and nothing else in the parcel. most weapons will be disassembled and send in different parcels. but better to have some real story justifying importation and ready to produce it. in some case concealment can be used against you as prove of contraband attempt. but if you importing parts for your licenced weapon, them it can be mislabelled and it is not your fault.
Title: Re: Weapons Shipping
Post by: tordemon on January 17, 2012, 11:46 pm
That actually makes a lot of sense, Tranzshipper.
Title: Re: Weapons Shipping
Post by: Aoth14 on January 20, 2012, 07:30 am
I've shipped broken down guns before. that was in the 70-80s though.. Only the lower receiver that houses the FCG is an issue, so the more you can make it look like a parts kit in x-ray, the better chance you MIGHT have if it gets pulled from the line. I've received thousands of gun parts and never had a package opened.
Title: Re: Weapons Shipping
Post by: AmberDing on January 21, 2012, 03:33 am
There was a case in the UK news a few years ago where the police found a fully operational AK47 during a house search, the owner said he had got it into the country by stripping it down to the components and shipping them over in boxes of motorcycle parts from Europe.

That's fine if you really want to import a gun yourself, but whether any SR vendor would want to go to that effort is a different matter. Not sure if would be a good thing for SR to become an illegal arms market anyway, perhaps someone should start a separate "Peshawar Bazaar" site for that sort of thing.
Title: Re: Weapons Shipping
Post by: tordemon on January 21, 2012, 02:33 pm
AmberDing, weapons are so expensive, though; the only reason they're ever able to be sold around here is because the silk road is trusted due to people having taken chances on smaller orders. Someplace focusing only on weaponry would likely get no business because all of the items would be so expensive and it wouldn't garner any credibility.
Title: Re: Weapons Shipping
Post by: AmberDing on January 22, 2012, 02:52 am
AmberDing, weapons are so expensive, though; the only reason they're ever able to be sold around here is because the silk road is trusted due to people having taken chances on smaller orders. Someplace focusing only on weaponry would likely get no business because all of the items would be so expensive and it wouldn't garner any credibility.

That makes sense, wasn't something I'd really thought about, but I liked the name :)
Title: Re: Weapons Shipping
Post by: tordemon on January 23, 2012, 08:04 pm
Haha, yea, somebody should open it up just for the name if for no other reason.
Title: Re: Weapons Shipping
Post by: blunt1 on January 23, 2012, 08:34 pm
I've been looking at this very problem over the last months myself.And i now see there is a seller on Sr who can ship to anywhere??? anybody bought off him yet??? The one big question i have is what do you do about the shipping address for sure for something like this i can't put my own address for any of the parts..But then even if i have friends address i can use, would just putting a fake name on the package be enough??? any advice on this would be great as i've seen some products i would love to play with lol .......
Title: Re: Weapons Shipping
Post by: treebeard on January 24, 2012, 01:08 am
I've shipped broken down guns before. that was in the 70-80s though.. Only the lower receiver that houses the FCG is an issue, so the more you can make it look like a parts kit in x-ray, the better chance you MIGHT have if it gets pulled from the line. I've received thousands of gun parts and never had a package opened.

guns parts shipped a lot, not necessary from TOR based sellers. many legit businesses, who trade gun's parts will ship parts concealed. some services can offer exactly the gun which you may want. suppressors too factory made and garage made of same quality as factory. if you need barrel can be threaded for suppressor. problem here is to find right  people willing to do that.

indeed. 

is it possible to conceal the shipment of 'illegal' weaponry by disguising it as legal parts?


I've got two rifle barrels labelled as machine parts and nothing else in the parcel. most weapons will be disassembled and send in different parcels. but better to have some real story justifying importation and ready to produce it. in some case concealment can be used against you as prove of contraband attempt. but if you importing parts for your licenced weapon, them it can be mislabelled and it is not your fault.


thanks for the input