Just take a weeks holidays and go and pick them up. An export permit takes less then 3 days to get.
Zurihegel
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Bad news from Switzerland...
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 Guisan |
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Posts: 10650 (08/16/08 23:50:17) Contributing Member |
You can only get a export permit wth a import permit and the last could take up to 6 months to get !
Guisan. 
Fight to your last cartridge, then fight with your bayonets.
No surrender. Fight to the death. Gen. Henri Guisan, Switzerland, July '40 |
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Dragunov01 |
Not even UPS, DHL, DPD or FedEx ... | ||
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Posts: 291 (08/17/08 02:20:19) |
... will ship arms abroad in future !
Hans Aebi (Kessler auctions) has checked with them and got negative replies from all of them. Cheers Dragunov |
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Posts: 7 (08/17/08 08:44:45) |
A very sad situation indeed. I have not heard from my family in Switzerland yet. Not that it might have changed things anyway. The 9/11 attacks pushed the
world into paranoid zombies I'm afraid.
"NO SNIVELING"
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Posts: 294 (08/18/08 14:11:21) |
The ATF import permit (Form 6) is only needed with modern firearms, not for antiques 1898 and older. So since you wouldn't need the impoet permit with
antiques would you even need a Swiss export permit?
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Guisan |
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Posts: 10658 (08/19/08 00:36:59) Contributing Member |
From November on with the new gun law there yes.
Guisan.
Fight to your last cartridge, then fight with your bayonets.
No surrender. Fight to the death. Gen. Henri Guisan, Switzerland, July '40 |
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Gwamp |
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Posts: 41 (08/20/08 11:38:01) |
I am guessing that this will apply to ammo as well?
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Guisan |
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Posts: 10676 (08/20/08 12:21:33) Contributing Member |
Well I think shipping life ammo by Post was prohibited already and the GP11 available in the USA is probably shipped in a different way in containers by boat I
guess, the same goes probably for large amounts of K31's.
Guisan.
Fight to your last cartridge, then fight with your bayonets.
No surrender. Fight to the death. Gen. Henri Guisan, Switzerland, July '40 |
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Gwamp |
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Posts: 42 (08/21/08 08:09:10) |
Well, that is good news anyways. I guess this is mostly going to apply to the small amounts of parts, accessories and other goodies that were being purchased
from private parties. I am glad I got most of what I wanted already.
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Guisan |
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Posts: 10688 (08/21/08 08:35:54) Contributing Member |
Yes no hand pick specials straight from Switzerland anymore as long as there is no reasonable priced transport solution.
Guisan.
Fight to your last cartridge, then fight with your bayonets.
No surrender. Fight to the death. Gen. Henri Guisan, Switzerland, July '40 |
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F4D |
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Posts: 8 (09/02/08 08:02:22) |
There can't be that many K31's left in Switzerland to ship anymore. Or am I mistaken?
"NO SNIVELING"
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Posts: 10756 (09/02/08 09:40:41) Contributing Member |
Yes I'm afraid you are, there is still plenty of nice stuff around there and a solution is in the make but it is becoming much more pricey to get things
over.
Guisan.
Fight to your last cartridge, then fight with your bayonets.
No surrender. Fight to the death. Gen. Henri Guisan, Switzerland, July '40 |
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carolinaman |
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Posts: 178 (10/04/08 02:08:58) |
Guisan,
Does this apply to scopes and firearms mounted optics? I want to send a friend of mine in Grandson a scope. Best, Chris |
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Guisan |
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Posts: 10998 (10/04/08 03:47:36) Contributing Member |
Chris drop me an email and I'll explain, in my address book are as much as 22 addresses by the name Chris and I forgot which one yours is.
Guisan.
Fight to your last cartridge, then fight with your bayonets.
No surrender. Fight to the death. Gen. Henri Guisan, Switzerland, July '40 |
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D3801 |
Swiss Post ban Dummy/Exerziert Patrone | ||
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Posts: 5 (10/06/08 16:50:03) |
Hi, Everyone,
looks like I've just fallen foul of this new restriction. I won a 20mm exerziert patrone, on ricardo last week. There was no mention of 'kein versand im Ausland on the original listing. Only when I got the invoice, was this stated. I tried reasoning that, actually, an exerziert patrone/armourers dummy isn't really a cartridge/round/shell/weapon, seeing as its made from one piece of metall, and merely resembles the rounds used. Combat aircraft often carry such items on exercise, as 'equivalent weights', in order to more closely resemble combat flying characteristics, than flying empty (when no live firing is required) . The seller's statement cited the Swisspost regulations, about handling arms/militaria. Apparently this ban also applies to 'deko cases' trenchart??? I might suggest a courier via Leichtenstein ! |
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D3801 |
Exercise round | ||
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Posts: 11006 (10/07/08 01:50:41) Contributing Member |
Yes but that rule also came from US customs, the post here has a big book with rules for what is allowed to ship and what not and dummies are banned for at least a year or so. You can't expect a postal clerk or customs officer to have any EOD knowledge and in the past buildings have been evacuated because of scary looking items sticking out of parcels. I'm pretty sure that same rule also applies when you ship from the UK. If you have patience I think I can solve your problem, drop me an email if you want to know how. Guisan.
Fight to your last cartridge, then fight with your bayonets.
No surrender. Fight to the death. Gen. Henri Guisan, Switzerland, July '40
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10/07/08 01:57:39.
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