A friend of mine left some firearms in California with his friend when he moved out of that state.
What does his friend have to do to ship those firearms from Ca. to my friend here in Texas.
Sure would appreciate any insight y'all can share on this.
TIA, Ray

I wasn't sure if they would have to be sent FFL to FFL. Thank you Sir!

You know its funny.
If he really is the owner of the guns, he is basically sending them to himself at his new residence. Just like he would have his household furnishings sent. That is not an ownership change transaction.
If he was moving and boxed them up and sent them and then flew or drove to his new place - like that.
In this case, his friend (or family or whoever) is doing the boxing and sending to him, the owner.

Its like the issue of sending them somewhere for repair or modification, those places are often not FFL's. But UPS and FEDEX are often understandably perplexed at those situations. People sending Guns all over!!!

I do not know all the rules and I am one to be very careful about this stuff myself. California may have a law
If there is not clear ownership / receipts / registration etc.by the 'owner' then maybe there is more to this. Or if the friend who has stored them is, um, something less than 'sharp as a tack' you might want to inquire further.
You might want to go over to calguns.net and ask. That is very heavily trafficked compared to this particular HTF and there are a lot of people who know the laws.

Of course Paul here, will know too but he is older now and sleeps a lot .

What you are saying makes sense since he is the owner



Another option is for the owner to drive out here, pick up firearms and drive back



 

Friend's friend in CA (or any state) can't mail them directly to the friend/owner. That's Fed Law, if I'm not mistaken.
Friend/owner COULD however mail them to himself in another state. That's also Fed Law. Or to himself 'care of' at a different address.  That might be worth a round trip airplane flight to do.
Friend's friend's best and safest approach is to package and mail them as law requires to the FFL nearest the friend/owner's current home location. Letter / ownership docs inside, if any, incase of damage or lost in shipping. The FFL can receive them, the friend can retrieve them. Prearrange this with the FFL, let them know they are coming, paying them for their trouble.
Those are the legal gymnastics.
The Friend's friend could try to mail them direct, but the shippers in CA are pretty uninformed and phobic and will expect a valid FFL address for the To: address.

Depending how many firearms are involved, the best thing might be to fly back to CA rent a car and drive them home to TX.  Or fly back to CA and pay for a road trip with his friend and drive them back to TX.