Hope this plays out well. More, affordable ammunition to the provinces here will only add to our numbers and make the shooting sports more popular.
The conundrum we are in as I understand it from my trucker son, W/ hazmat endorsement is that small arms ammunition in reasonable quantities, is listed
as an ORM-D commodity for shipping purposes. Same as hair spray and a number of other every day items. They can truck it most anywhere.
However once the stuff comes off the truck and goes airborne, or feet wet on a ship, it becomes classified as 1.4 explosive. Whole new paradigm for shipping and very regulated, read expensive.
FED X handles hazmat such as paint and the like, but packaging rules are very strict and there are limitations as to what aircraft may carry them. Freighters only, not space -A as in the belly of a passenger plane
even if there is room. All the guys on the net advertise ammunition at great rates, but get to the check out and see the shipping...
We need to find a way to beat this system somehow so that we may take advantage of the internet deals on ammo that are so tantalizing, or help or local gun shops make better shipping arrangements.