Lock Picking & Theft Devices

Examples of permitted listings

• Blank keys

Examples of prohibited listings

• Lock picking or locksmithing devices, such as:
  • Autolock bypass keys or jigglers
  • Concealed handcuff keys
  • Digital decoders
  • Lock picking cards and lock picking guns
  • Lock picking sets
  • Slim-jims
  • Tension bars
  • Training locks
  • Try-out keys
  • Tubular lock picks
• Devices designed to duplicate a key
• Shoplifting devices, including sensormatic detachers
• Card skimming devices
• Code grabbing devices
• Master keys or skeleton keys

Additional useful information

• Public Money, Property or Records,18 U.S.C. 641, which prohibits the theft of government property
• Nonmailability of Locksmithing Devices, 39 U.S.C. 3002a, and Injurious Articles as Nonmailablity of locksmithing devices,18 U.S.C. 1716A, which prohibit the mailing of locksmithing devices unless they are sent to specific, authorized parties

Last updated 08/03/2018