A bit different FFL question???

leeblackman

I was reading about doing a home FFL. I was wondering? If you set up a firearms business not as a sole proprietorship but incorporated, then how do you setup your FFL. How does Wal-mart legally sell guns that way, their clerks don't have FFL's, who has the FFL to let them sell firearms?

AntiqueDr

The corporation is an entity, much like the sole proprietor is an entity. When you set up a corporation, you designate certain individuals as officers within that corporation on the charter.Wal-Mart, as a corporation, applies for an FFL for each location it sets up a store. A designated corporate officer signs the FFL's, possibly a regional manager or somebody.Should something go wrong, the ATF goes after the corporation - which can be held liable as an entity much like an individual could be held liable. Make sense?

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GunHawke

I have an FFL and do about 95% of my business on the internet. For the private sales I personally take care of them all...but...as the ATF explained it, any employee can perform the in house ATF NICS check and sign as the seller as long as I have that employee (of age) designated to do so. That designation is a very loose constraint...my word and his employment with my business is all that is needed.

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leeblackman

Thanks you guys, you don't know how much that helps. So if I were to obtain an FFL, it would be better for me to just blow a couple of grand on a good lawyer to setup a private corporation, to take a little of the liability off me.