Interesting Opinion from a Gun Shop Guy Today

[cktad]

Just a thought....

With private sales you don't know where that gun is going to end up and if it is going to be used in a crime. If the police show up on your doorstep and you don't have any paper work...good luck. Of course if the pistol was from an estate sale or handed down and the original owner is dead you probably don't have anything to worry about . Although, having an FFL, I usually recommend that a person who wants to sell a gun come in and let me register it in my books and run the 4473 on the buyer...no fuss and legal documentation to "CYA!!!"

Barry

PS:
Most FFLs on OSA only charge $10...small price for piece of mind.
BJG

As long as you sell it privately within the prescribed laws and you did not knowingly sell it to a felon you have nothing to worry about....no paper work needed. Please cite a case where someone who sold a gun privately within the laws got into trouble. I could cite several cases where a gun was sold privately (no paperwork) and then used in crime and there was no problems for the seller.

 

[twoguns?]

I would like to see a 5 day waiting period on all transactions and the dealers should be allowed to charge storage fees for those 5 days.

Waiting period?
Storage fees?
Wouldnt that be an "infringement"
Hows about dealers Pay for holding My merchandise.....call it "Kidnapping Fees"
No New Laws

 

[338Shooter]

Waiting period?
Storage fees?
Wouldnt that be an "infringement"
Hows about dealers Pay for holding My merchandise.....call it "Kidnapping Fees"
No New Laws

It's not about you. It's about the children.

 

[twoguns?]

It's not about you. It's about the children.

Thats...Exactly, What I'm talkin about

No New Laws

 

[Shootin 4 Fun]

Waiting period?
Storage fees?
Wouldnt that be an "infringement"
Hows about dealers Pay for holding My merchandise.....call it "Kidnapping Fees"
No New Laws

You'll have to talk to the Feds about those kidnapping fees. We're just performing a service that protects citizens from evil people.

 

[Shootin 4 Fun]

Thats...Exactly, What I'm talkin about

No New Laws

The existing laws don't work. We need a Barney Fife law.

 

[twoguns?]

The existing laws don't work. We need a Barney Fife law.

Yeah your right its Not about me, or the Children......its about the almighty
Dollar...a few bucks, some cabbage, and even a Little Control.....Yeah Right






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[EFsDad]

To the OP, as my good friend Ron used to say "Trust but verify." Please see if it is indeed a mis-guided employee or a lame brain.

Just a thought....
Of course if the pistol was from an estate sale or ...

Just a question. Should not an estate sale go through a FFL holder? It seems that all of the drawings that I have entered to win guns went through an FFL.

 

[Shootin 4 Fun]

Yeah your right its Not about me, or the Children......its about the almighty
Dollar...a few bucks, some cabbage, and even a Little Control.....Yeah Right






.

Whatever, just remember that the firearm will not be released until the storage fees are paid in full.

 

[ttownokie]

So if you sold a gun directly to an already convicted felon, you have no responsibility in the transaction?

This is correct, I have no obligation to prove that the person I am selling to does not have a previous felony conviction.

Personally, i think the idea that a felon cannot own a firearms is ridiculous, if they have served their time they are freemen, and freemen have all natural rights as everybody else! Never mind that the majority of "felons" are not for violent offenses.

Now regardless of what I think of that, the way the law is written today is that I can not knowingly sell to a felon. But I have no obligation to prove they are not!