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great, so now you know that singapore customs will be watching for anything coming from redwolf and will confiscate it.
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you can ship it by parts. but the barrel is quite hard.
try european countries. they are pretty relaxed in customs. but all that might had changed after 9/11.
Courier services are the safest bet.
LOL! imagine trying to ship a SAW piece by piece!!!
insane!
In europe, in some countries it is relaxed, in others not so.
In the uk we have just gone through a round of scare mongering by the government, but a letter went out to airsofters from the government Firearms Minister that said legitimate airsofters were not at risk.
In Scandinavia its ok [definately Finland and Sweden are ok].
Some of the other countries have proper national leagues and arena events and multi-day military-sim games.
These include France and Spain.
Countries that have banned anything gun-shaped at all are Germany and Holland [Netherlands].
At the end of last year, several shipments were sent by courier from Hong Kong to Spain and the UK [amongst other legal countries].
Trouble was, the couriers used a european stopoff hub to redistribute the shipments amongst those countries.
Unfortunately, the hubs were in Germany and Holland.
Customs in those two countries confiscated all related shipments and burnt/crushed them.
The dealers in HongKong were pretty good about it tho, and re-issued the shipments about a month later, using different couriers.
So, moral is, not all couriers are safe to go by, even if they previously had a good reputation [TNT in this case, now no longer trusted - tho to be fair, they had no say - Customs in individual countries can be as strict as they like, regardless of the shipments passing thru or not]
Just watch out and dont be surprised if something nasty happens..
I was refering that you bring the airsoft personally back to singapore...
Do customs in singapore do random checks or do they always check courier shipments?
i guess if you bring stuff back personally from europe then.. am i right in saying that your chances of being checked by customs are reduced then if you came back from Hong Kong for example?
trouble with getting stuff in europe is.. it is alot more expensive than coming from HK or Japan...[150% or so]
Airsoft guns can be detected thru baggage X-ray though. Best not to do that.
Best is you go HK, buy one, and DHL it back to yourself without a sender's address. If it gets siezed, you don't know anything about it. DHL it back together with some other toys, then you can just say its a toy.
What I was saying, is that if you do happen to be there for a tour or something, and bought a couple of pieces. Having checking your luggage in with the pieces in them (do not carry onboard), chances of them stopping you aren't high as long as its not a real firearm, and that it is not carried onboard.
As for shipping wise, I'm not sure of the procedure, but I think you have to declare what item your sending.
They scan luggage occassionaly. Carry ons sure check one, 100%. Luggage depends, but I've been checked before. Once in Pudong Intl, China, and twice in Changi.