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Been going back and forth on this for weeks. I keep seeing consumer cakes and shells for sale on sites that ship to your door, but I always thought anything above sparklers needed a license or a permit of some kind. Is 1.4G actually okay to order online and get dropped off by a regular carrier, or are those sites flagging something that’ll get me in trouble? Genuinely confused about where the line is between hobby stuff and the 1.3G stuff that needs real paperwork. Anyone actually done it?
1.4G is the consumer stuff, you don’t need an ATF license for it. The catch is shipping – only a couple carriers (mostly UPS) are even set up to move hazmat class 1.4S and they charge an arm and a leg for it. The website itself usually has to hold a hazmat shipper cert, not you. So yeah you can get cakes to your door, but the shipping fee is often more than the product, lol. 1.3G is the one that needs the license.
Jim’s right on the money. Quick add – even though it’s legal federally for 1.4G, some states require you to be a certain age or ban certain products entirely (looking at you, Massachusetts and their aerial ban). Worth a skim of the Rules section here before you drop cash – there’s a thread that goes over the state-by-state oddities in more detail. The shipping fee note is dead on too, count on it being steep.
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