Oct. 13 Knox Report
RPS, which just a week ago was eager to ship handguns by ground since UPS had said it wouldn't, now says it won't. Yesterday afternoon, Chris Starks of the Texas-based Gun Owners Alliance, received an email from RPS saying that they would handle only long guns, as of last Friday, Oct. 8. Handguns would have to go by air through their parent company, Federal Express.
Late in the day, Chris talked with a woman at Airborne Express Customer Service. She told him that they have just changed their policy _also effective Oct. 8_ to not only stop ground shipment of handguns but to quit handling any firearms shipments period.
She claimed she had read a memo to that effect, but couldn't fax him a copy, so that report still isn't confirmed.
This sounds like collusion among the interstate carriers, which would be a worthy subject for a Congressional investigation. If I were a gun company with a huge budget for litigation defending against city lawsuits, I think I'd spend a tad of that budget to file suit against the carriers who were trying to run up the cost of my product.
It's going to be mighty difficult to mount an effective boycott if all the carriers are doing it, but my sweet wife of 43 years told me a few minutes ago that she's never going to ship anything more on UPS - because they started it.
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