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If traveling to India, can someone bring a handloader (small size) into the country? Is there a permit required? The handloader will not be used in India. Just traveling through a few weeks

Reloading is legal in India. Reloading equipment are not regulated, license or permit is not required. Even though legal customs may create baseless issues out of their ignorance. You may also refer this thread http://indiansforguns.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=12932

Most airlines will not allow the carraige of gunpowder or primers. And those are next to impossible to get in India. So I think reloading in India will remain a pipe dream.

Reloading is certainly legal in India provided it is done for one's self only and not commercially manufactured or sold by an arms license holder for a particular caliber. But as MoA rightly says, the problem is to get the Powder and the Primers into the country as most air lines will refuse to carry it as a personal baggage. One is at liberty to get the reloading accessories into India as they are nothing but metal dies and a Press totally useless without these ingredients. Of late I've heard that the cargo vessels too have put an embargo on these items making it as much difficult for people coming back to their motherland under TR rules.

Marksman

MoA wrote:Most airlines will not allow the carraige of gunpowder or primers. And those are next to impossible to get in India. So I think reloading in India will remain a pipe dream.

I'm not sure if they can be shipped through cargo ships or could be transported through land line transport , but getting it clear through customs and when you don't have any other precedent to be proven right in the court of the law, you seems like having a million dollar question and no answer .

As long as supply is concerned , primers could be transported from any where in Europe if not from North America

When President Obama was ruffling the wings we hoarded the primers and handloading bullets like crazy and empty the shelves of any store we could get our hand on. If some how India got into reloading stuff, it'd going to be a frenzy again so , Sorry I;m not going to help any one - Haji

Dear Friend.

Re-loading is not legal in India.
But if you are passing through India, you can leave it with customs and take it back on your journey.
Otherwise you may get into serious trouble, because our customs people do not know what it is.

Pandian. ********EDITED*********.