---
kind: "section"
citation: "27 C.F.R. § 478.146"
title: "27"
number: "478.146"
heading: "Deliveries by mail to certain persons."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/27/478.146"
---

# §478.146. Deliveries by mail to certain persons.


The provisions of this part shall not be construed as prohibiting a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, or licensed dealer from depositing a firearm for conveyance in the mails to any officer, employee, agent, or watchman who, pursuant to the provisions of [section 1715](/usc/18/1715.md) of title 18, U.S.C., is eligible to receive through the mails pistols, revolvers, and other firearms capable of being concealed on the person, for use in connection with his official duties.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552(a); 18 U.S.C. 847, 921-931; 44 U.S.C. 3504(h).

### Source

Source: 33 FR 18555, Dec. 14, 1968, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 40 FR 16835, Apr. 15, 1975, and further redesignated by T.D. ATF-487, 68 FR 3750, Jan. 24, 2003.