A "separate package" is STILL luggage, Einstein. I've landed, many times, at many airports, with a gun in my luggage. I will do so again, in the spring, in Spain.

You can't do that at Heathrow. Doesn't matter if it is checked luggage,or, a "separate package", you can't do it.

My Dad's foster father sent two newish Colt autoloaders, a .45 and an Ace to England, on a drive sponsored in St. Paul, MN circa 1940-I wouldn't have minded them back.

Really. I wouldn't have minded one bit.

Who is uninformed now?

Best,
Ted