If you want to ship your firearm, weapon, ammunition, or even parts using United Airlines’ Cargo division, you will have the find another carrier. United has just announced that it is suspending the transport of such items.
United Cargo Bans Weapons Transport
A memo reviewed by Live and Let’s Fly notes the immediate suspension of the shipment of firearms, weapons, firearm parts, and ammunition on all United flights as cargo.
Due to the increase in regulations and controls for handling these items in different countries around the world, we have made the decision to suspend these items until we have the processes and procedures to do so without risk.
The new policy went into effect on September 16, 2021.
What is a firearm according to United? United defines firearms, guns, and weapons as objects capable, or appearing capable, of discharging a projectile by the action of an explosive and causing injury or death. Included in this category are parts or modifiers for firearms or guns.
Practically for cargo customers, all weapons and their components will be banned:
- Cargo shipments containing any type of firearm, whether for personal, military, or sporting use, will no longer be accepted on any United Airlines flight until further notice.
- United Cargo will no longer accept modifiers or parts for firearms or guns including scopes or frames.
- United Cargo will no longer accept any ammunition including cartridge cases, primers, bullets, or propellant powder designed for use in any firearm.
This new restriction is limited to United Cargo. United Airlines passengers will continue to be allowed to check firearms before their flight at the airport counter. This new restriction more likely implicates gun manufacturers, gun shops, and potentially military clients who may have used United Cargo in the past to ship weapons.
United says “this may be temporary” but explained to employees, “Several shipments of firearms have generated regulatory interest. Limited methods of controlling risk in this space require complete restriction.” Translation: shipping arms is more trouble than its worth.
CONCLUSION
While United Airlines is not prohibiting customers from checking their personal firearms prior to a flight, it will no longer offer cargo shipments of any weapons or weapon components. The move is marked as “temporary” but blamed on a complex regulatory environment, suggesting that it will not be short-lived.
Well, most of the firearms are now with the Taliban anyway thanks to Grandpa Joe.
That’s a rather asinine statement.
The only asinine is the one sitting in the White House.
No, that’s who you see in the mirror.
Oh and an idiot like you that put the demented there.
The only demented one here is you.
A-A-Ron, your mom says you can go upstairs now. Tyrone has left.
That low intelligence arone is pathetic…..needs to find something to criticize to feel important..so sad
If you look in a mirror, you’ll find the asinine, brainwashed fool is you.
Careful boys that dotterin old fool dementia Joe might mistake you for an aid worker handing out water and smoke you with a drone. Hide the wife and kids.
Yes hide the wife until the pussy grabber returns.
Says a guy who probably never served but is always talking about patriotism. PRESIDENT Joe Biden deserves the flack for how he handled the evacuation and underestimating the Taliban. Former President Trump gets the blame for making deals with the Taliban and stating we were pulling out with a set timeline. Talk about idiot! If we are going to criticize former President Obama for doing the same thing, then we have to also put Trump in the crosshairs as well. One doesn’t get to go against the wishes of well… EVERYONE, DOD, his own party, ex GOP admin, and not face some blame. But hey, it’s common sense I’m speaking and based on your comments, I’m not really sure if you have any.
United can’t even get me to EWR without loosing the checked bags I have to pay extra for… who the hell would ship their firearms with any mode of transportation that includes United Airlines in their supply chain?
Never thought a airline would go woke…
What does being “woke” have to do with this?
Also, you using woke as an insult says more about you than it does about the people you are trying to insult.
Always a good idea to read the article before you comment on it. It has nothing to do with being woke.
I believe that some officers in United have become aware of the politics in shipping weapons or parts of weapons my not be looked on as favorable by certain groups of people or the current administration I feel the term “woke” has gone far beyond the identification of race issues and now describes any thing that may be socially uncomfortably to people. It just looks like it fits this situation. I know that they will ship weapons again as soon as they can spin something to fix the problem they believe they have.
As David said, it might help to read the article first before showing us what you really thing about equality (spoiler alert, you’re probably against it):
“Due to the increase in regulations and controls for handling these items in different countries around the world”
Sorry you don’t have a nice life…you have all our simpathy
Is this your way of saying you didn’t read the article before you posted your “woke” comment?
Reading is Fundamental
Much ado about nothing.
As someone who is involved in the transportation of weapons and munitions as part of his job, it sounds like they’ve run into some issues with paperwork/permits related to the importation of such items that has led to shipments being held or, possibly, fines. Doesn’t sound like a safety-related issue at all. Likely they had a few problematic shipments in a short period of time and are hitting pause to perform root cause analysis and check their compliance system.