[American in Israel]

Strip the gun into two parts and mail it home in two separate packages. Once you break it down it is no longer a firearm, it’s parts and not illegal to mail in the regular postal service.

You only need a dealer if the gun is functional. A frame without a cylinder, or a receiver without a barrel is parts. A pistol without a magazine IS still a gun, it is just considered unloaded. You could place a single round in the chamber and fire it.

[marktwain]

Once you break it down it is no longer a firearm, it’s parts and not illegal to mail in the regular postal service.

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Unfortunately, under American law, I believe you are incorrect. In federal law, the frame (receiver) the part with the serial number, *is* the firearm. Functionality is not required.

It would be an excellent reform in the law, if functionality was required. But I do not believe it is.