(Headline USA) Major trucking company Saia announced this week that it will no longer transport firearms, according to Freight Waves.
The Georgia-based logistics and shipping giant informed employees and drivers of a new “rules tariff” implemented in the wake of several recent mass shootings, including the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, last month. The tariff will discontinue the shipment of firearms, including handguns and rifles, both assembled and disassembled.
Saia will continue to transport individual firearm parts such as gun barrels and grips, along with ammunition.
The report also alleged that Saia and other shipping companies were already thinking about putting distance between themselves and gun manufacturers due to the potential for dangerous theft.
“I would feel safe to say that most LTL companies today would shy away from the commodity due to the risk,” Rex Oliver, director of operations at Atlantic Logistics, explained.
Gun control advocates have demanded stricter regulations, and even outright bans on some firearms, in the wake of the Uvalde shooting. House Democrats complied with their demands on Wednesday by passing a sweeping gun control package that will more than likely die in the Senate.
The bill, called the “Protecting Our Kids Act,” would raise the legal age to buy certain semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21 years old, establish new federal offenses for gun trafficking and selling large-capacity magazines, and create red flag laws allowing law enforcement to confiscate a person’s firearms if he is deemed mentally unfit to carry one.
“Here they come – going after law-abiding citizens’ Second Amendment liberties,” Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said in a statement.
“The speaker started by saying this bill is about protecting our kids. That is important. … That’s what she said, ‘protecting our kids is important.’ Yes, it is. But this bill doesn’t do it,” he said.
