Gun sale question

[0750turbo]

If I sell a rifle online to someone out of state (georgia) and they want to meet me to pick it up because they are going to be in the area, am I required by law to go to a gunshop to complete a transfer?

 

[Luke76]

I believe a sale to a resident of another state must be performed through an FFL. I'm sure they'll be people much smarter than me chiming in here soon if I'm incorrect though.

 

[spec4]

I believe this has to be ffl to ffl because GA is not adjacent to IN. IANAL With the little you posted, my antenna is starting to twitch.

 

[mikefraz]

Different states means that it has to go through an FFL

 

[SERparacord]

If I sell a rifle online to someone out of state (georgia) and they want to meet me to pick it up because they are going to be in the area, am I required by law to go to a gunshop to complete a transfer?

Yep.

 

[cwagner1]

Just meet him at an ffl registered gun store that'll do the transfer. No big deal, and it's easy, but do it through an ffl.

 

[Colt556]

Yes it needs to be transferred and YES it sounds like a SCAM to me.

 

[ruger1800]

Sounds like 3 hots and a cot.

 

[IndyDave1776]

If I sell a rifle online to someone out of state (georgia) and they want to meet me to pick it up because they are going to be in the area, am I required by law to go to a gunshop to complete a transfer?

Never forget that such a 'convenient' situation may well be a fed trying to chalk up a score by manufacturing a situation that would not have existed without deliberately creating it. Randy Weaver could tell you much about .gov-manufactured problems. Good general advice is 'if in doubt, don't'.

It would be nice if the feds (or state and local law enforcement agencies, for that matter) would limit themselves to dealing with people who were deliberately breaking the law of their own accord, but it is much faster, easier, and yields a neater package to wrap up when they find someone they can dupe into allowing them to manufacture an incident. You must also remember that the evaluations, either internally or, as with the prosecutors, at the ballot box, are measured by putting heads on pikes (and the revenue stream from doing so) not the question of whether or not those heads deserved to be on pikes.

 

[Deadly Z Driver]

If I sell a rifle online to someone out of state (georgia) and they want to meet me to pick it up because they are going to be in the area, am I required by law to go to a gunshop to complete a transfer?

It has to be sent to a FFL in Georgia, since he is a Georgia resident.

 

[PGRChaplain]

Go to your gun store, they can transfer the rifle to the Georiga resident. Tell the buyer this and see if he still wants the deal. Find out if he will pay the transfer fee.

 

[citizenkane]

If its a rifle you can go to a gun shop and have them do a transfer. Mitch Daniels eliminated the continuous state requirement a couple of years ago.

 

[marv]

It might be in your best interest to have no further contact with that particular individual.

 

[JoshuaW]

If its a rifle you can go to a gun shop and have them do a transfer. Mitch Daniels eliminated the continuous state requirement a couple of years ago.

I'm about 95% sure that requirement is still in place. Regardless, it has to go to an FFL, and I would be willing to bet that will kill the sale. The FFL will know whether or not they can transfer.

 

[Paul30]

In case in question, if it were a handgun it would have to go through a dealer with FFL in HIS state. You could not do the transaction in your state even through a dealer. The dealer here would simply ship it to a dealer there, which you can do too. Only problem is if address they gave you wasn't really a dealer and it went south. Rifles are a little different with dealers as KY dealer can sell a IN resident a rifle and IN dealer can sell a KY resident a rifle. I believe it only applies to boarder states. Ask a dealer to be sure, but I don't think they could do a local transfer to a person who's state does not touch ours. A dealer would know for sure.