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Need FFL Advise Please

marsyemarsye Member Posts: 364 ✭✭✭
edited March 2002 in Ask the Experts
I would like your advise or opinions please. My husband is on disability from an on the job injury years ago but his income is not enough to live on unless you can eat beans everyday. I'm sure some of you know what I mean. He loves working with guns altho he is not a gunsmith and doesn't claim to be. We enjoy going to the pawn shops and looking for non working guns. Once in a great while he manages to put a gun back together in working condition and sells it for a little extra income and we have sold a few parts that he couldn't use on another auction site....and now we have a few on GunBroker we have found. I know this is long and I'm getting to the point. A couple days ago we went to some pawn shops in Waco, Tx and asked if they had any non working guns for sale and a couple of the shops told us they did but wouldn't sell to us because we didn't have a FFL and that the regulations have just recently changed. We have bought many guns in the past at pawn shops by just filling out the yellow form. So what we are wondering what would be the advantages and disavantages to obtaining a FFL. We are very new at this but at the same time just trying to make a honest supplement income. If we get a FFL and sell a gun on the auction do we have to go thru alot of paperwork and taxes? If we need FFL now to buy at pawn shops but have to go thru alot of paperwork and pay taxes to sell then I don't see where we would be any better off. Confused about FFL's.....please advise! Thanks, Marsye
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  • ZackJonesZackJones Member Posts: 12 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    http://www.atf.treas.gov/firearms/nlc/ffl_info.htm Contains all the info you'd need to get your FFL. Good Luck!Take Care,Zack Jones
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  • marsyemarsye Member Posts: 364 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks for the replies, they have been very helpful....however I still have one question. What if we sold just parts over the internet thru the auctions or a working gun just once in awhile? Would we need FFL or have to pay taxes? We don't want to do anything illegal but at the same time we don't want the hassle that sounds like we will have if we sell working guns. We have no desire to have a home business open to the public...we are interested in just selling a little on online auctions to supplement our income without having a big hassle. (Am I sticking my foot in my mouth??)
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  • Tailgunner1954Tailgunner1954 Member Posts: 7,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    discounts on parts / supplies will help to offset the FFL cost.Idea: Can he arrange to do clean / inspect work with your local pawn shops ? Maybe he can develop a subcontractor relationship with a local gunsmith also ? (same kind of thing, helping out with the less demanding but time consuming stuff)Just tossing out some possiable avenues to look into.Good luckBob
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  • fergusonmorse392fergusonmorse392 Member Posts: 432 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I WOULD BE INTRESTED TO KNOW WHAT RECENTLY CHANGE LAWS THEY ARE REFERING TO? ALSO MAYBE WHEN YOU ARE GOING INTO PLACES CHANGE YOUR APPROACH, MAYBE THAT YOUR LOOKING FOR SOME ITEMS TO THAT NEED WORK OR SOME TLC, HOBBIE TYPE ITEM, OR NEEDING PARTS FOR OTHER ITEM YOU ARE WORKING ON. YOU NEED NOT VOLUNTEER ANY OTHER INFO. IF YOUR BUYING IT FOR YOURSELF AND IF SOMETIME LATER YOU NO LONGER WAN'T IT, WHAT YOU DO WITH IT AFTER IS YOUR BUSINESS. UNLESS YOU START SUPPLYING GUNS TO KNOWN FELONS, ALIENS, & CHILDREN, &ETC. SELLING PARTS SHOULD BE NO PROBLEM, BUT YOU CAN'T SELL THE RECEIVER,(FRAME) (SERIALIZED PART) WITH OUT GOING THRU AN FFL ON THE RECEIVING END, OVER THE INTERNET. BUT AS IN SAXTON'S POST AT WHAT POINT WOULD SELLING GUNS, FRAMES, RECEIVERS, BECOME OR FALL UNDER ? NEEDING AN FFL.
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  • marsyemarsye Member Posts: 364 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    RIGHT! from our private collection.....Thanks for all the advise and the tips to changing our approach when we stop at pawn shops, sounds like a good idea. Its been a big help... Marsye
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  • PDF.44PDF.44 Member Posts: 97 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Dear Marsye,Being forced into retirement do to an injury I understand your position. I hope all of you out there do not take offence to me posting this. I had the opportunity to do business with this couple. At this time I would like to say they are honest and forthright. Also, Marsye sales hand made Raggedy Ann and Andy Dolls. I have purchased a set and Marsye, at this time I will be putting a check in the mail for two sets for my daughter's as a Mother's Day gift. It's my hopes that all of us gun lovers will consider making a gift of these dolls to our loved ones. Sincerely, Paul
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  • PDF.44PDF.44 Member Posts: 97 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Marsye,how do the others get in touch with you and Mark?
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  • marsyemarsye Member Posts: 364 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Paul, Thank you so much for the nice reply and compliments (and the plug for the dolls ha! ) You can email me at mmwraytx@yahoo.com. Thanks Marsye
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