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Do I want an FFL?

mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
edited October 2001 in Ask the Experts
Do I even want an FFL? Is there any kind of FFL that would allow me to purchase at out-of-state gun shows and/or GB auction and the like if I was just purchasing for my collection and not for resale? (There's a helluva sentence.) Is there a site that can give me info on what getting an FFL entails?ie. Documentation required, cost, etc.I'd appreciate any assist!Mudge
I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS!
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  • mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks Saxon (I can call you by your front name can't I?)It sounds like I don't want one.Mudge
    I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS!
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  • luger01luger01 Member Posts: 230 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Mudge,SaxonPig's correct. A full class 1 FFL is a huge responsibility and a hassle.If you're primarily interested in old collectibles, you might want to check out the C&R FFL. $30 for 3 years and you can, for the purposes of maintaining a collection, buy and sell C&R guns.What is a C&R gun you ask? It's one that is over 50 years old, is on the BATF C&R list, and/or meets certain criteria that makes it 'collectible'. OK. So what's that mean? It means that great vintage arms like the M1 Garand, the '98 Mauser, Lugers, old Colts, Wincchesters, Marlins, etc. are all C&R guns. You can buy from wholesalers. You can receive the gun directly without having it shipped to a FFL and paying from $10-50 for them to do the paperwork. Check out the BATF site and many of the old posts here for more details.
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  • Dborn61Dborn61 Member Posts: 9 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I also had a FFL until 1995. I ran the business from my home and when other gun shops in the area where being driven into with cars and pickups in the middle of the night I started to rethink the idea of selling guns. Then as discount stores such as Walmart ect started selling the same type guns I did for what my purchase price was it was time to give it up. I had thought about getting back into it again and doing Internet sales but almost every type of new gun is for sale buy dealers now on the net and most never get a single bid. If you could get suggested retail for the guns you could come out OK but the big chain stores get huge price breaks and can sell for less than the average FFL dealer pays and they still make money. At the time I quit Gander Mountain for example was paying about 20% less for the same gun than I was.
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  • ref44ref44 Member Posts: 251 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have had an FFL (out of my home) for 24 years..and have never found it to be a hassle. I know quite a few who dropped their FFL's in the mid-90's because of the "hassle", a word almost everyone of them used. Some felt that having to log a gun into the bound book was a "hassle". Such people never balance their checkbooks or have any idea how much they owe VISA. If you feel that way, you should not get one. It is news to me that the local police can enter your home because you have an FFL. The ATF? OK... In 24 years, I have had two on-site audits, and both were very cordial, courteous, and supportive. And no black helicopters fly over my home.
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  • M.OpaliskiM.Opaliski Member Posts: 244 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Right on Ref44 !
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