Lock picking and theft devices

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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
• Motor vehicle master keys, commonly referred to as "ignition keys"

Resources

• 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
• 18 U.S. Code § 1716A - Nonmailable locksmithing devices and motor vehicle master keys https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1716A
• 39 U.S. Code § 3002 - Nonmailable motor vehicle master keys https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/39/3002
• 39 U.S. Code § 3002a - Nonmailability of locksmithing devices - https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/39/3002a

Last updated 03/01/2024