Years ago I received an email from a young gentleman in Sweden saying he needed a barrel for an L.C. Smith hammer gun that his grandfather bought in New York in 1903 when he came to this country for work. Years later the Nazis came into Sweden and wanted all citizens to surrender any firearms they had. His grandfather wrapped it in a blanket and hid it in a cave. After the war he retrieved it but had rusted barrels. The grandfather still shot it and one day duck hunting the one barrel burst and luckily no one was hurt.
Long story long, he listed some parts he needed plus the barrels, I put out a feeler and one gentleman said he had a set to give him, I had the other parts and wrapped everything and took it to the post office, the woman working there said I had to declare what I was shipping to Sweden and I told her, she said put machine parts not gun parts, if they open the package in Sweden they might confiscate it but they didn't. Like I said this was years ago and the post office was small and the people working there were very nice and I guess it was fairly common to ship guns without them blowing a fuse. Funny I never heard from him again, tried reaching out to see how everything fit and never returned my emails. We didn't want anything for them, just trying to help.
