Chapter 75. Declaring pistols, revolvers, and other firearms capable of being concealed on the person nonmailable and providing penalty
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CHAP. 75.— An Act Declaring pistols, revolvers, and other firearms capable of being concealed on the person nonmailable and providing penalty.February 8, 1927.[[H. R. 4502](/us/bill/69/hr/4502).][[Public, No. 583](/us/pl/69/583).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Pistols, etc.Declared unmailable and deposit or delivery forbidden. That pistols, revolvers, and other firearms capable of being concealed on the person are hereby declared to be nonmailable and shall not be deposited in or carried by the mails or delivered by any postmaster, letter carrier, or other person in the Postal Service: *Provided*, That such articles may be conveyed in the mails, under such regulations as*Provisos*.Conveyance for official use permitted to designated Officers, etc. the Postmaster General shall prescribe, for use in connection with their official duty, to officers of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or officers’ Reserve Corps; to officers of the National Guard or Militia of the several States, Territories, and Districts; to officers of the United States or of the several States, Territories, and Dis- 1060 tricts whose official duty is to serve process of warrants of arrest or mittimus of commitment; to employees of the Postal Service; and to watchmen engaged in guarding the property of the United States, the several States, Territories, and Districts: *And provided further*, Trade shipments to manufacturers allowed under regulations.That such articles may be conveyed in the mails to manufacturers of firearms or bona fide dealers therein in customary trade shipments, including such articles for repairs or replacement of parts, from one to the other, under such regulations as the Postmaster General Punish misfit for violations.shall prescribe.
Whoever shall; knowingly deposit or cause to be deposited for mailing or delivery, or shall knowingly cause to be delivered by mail according to the direction thereon, or at any place to which it is directed to be delivered by the person to whom it is addressed, any pistol, revolver, or firearm, declared by this Act to be nonmailable, shall be fined not exceeding $1,000 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. Sec. 2. Effective is 90 days. And be it further enacted that this Act shall take effect ninety days after its approval by the President of the United States.
Approved, February 8, 1927.