TRAVEL TIPS - When Travelling with Sporting Weapons
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When commuting through New York, Washington and Atlanta please make sure you have a minimum of 2hrs between flights,
after recent research it shows that 83% of firearms did not make it to South Africa on the same flight as the owner,
if the in-transit period was less than 2hrs.
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After arriving in SA and need to take a connecting flight give yourself a minimum of 3hrs between arrival and departure to your next destination.
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Confirm you put your firearm in an approved airline firearm case. Do not pack your firearm in your checked luggage in an ordinary suitcase.
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The ammunition must be packed in its original packaging and put it in your checked luggage if coming from the US,
if travelling on a European or British carrier , ammunition must have a separate lockable case and is checked in with your firearm.
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Please mark your firearm case clearly with your name, address and contact number, often we find cases with no identification
on them and struggle to get them returned to the owner as we have to search the lost luggage files at the airlines
and get a description of the bag before trying to trace it's owner.
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Make sure you have the US customs forms 4457 or your license (depending on where you come from) when you leave home,
we had a fair number of people arriving without proof of ownership and wanting to get a temporary firearm permit on arrival,
The Embassy of the United State has been helpful in this regard, but you do loose 2/3 days of your hunt getting the right paperwork together.
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Call us on +27 11 659 2649 or fax us on +27 11 659 2931
Last modified:
November 2007