Went into a new shop some time back and everybody seemed like good folks, very customer oriented telling me how happy they were to do transfers or shipping etc... So I bought a bunch of knick-knacks every visit and a fairly overpriced 4506 mainly to "Support my local dealer". Thought I'd built a good relationship , then...
Have a Ruger MKII that's giving me some light strikes, Ruger says send it back Fed-ex or UPS next day. I think "Hey the dealer can send it USPS cheaper even after a fee ) BUT he tells me it has to go UPS from his shop and I have to pay him $25 on top of shipping for a "tranfer fee"-grand total $64
Gets real fun when I politely decline and say I'll mail it myself from UPS. He states that I cannot send a handgun anywhere UPS or any other way, that they will open the package and find out it's a handgun. I semi-politely tell him I always inform them if it's handgun by law and ship to a FFL or manufacturer next day air which is legal. Now he goes totally off "Thats not LEGAL! I'll call the ATF and they'll be there when you try it!"
I'm sorry to say blueduck lost his cool and said many things at this point... My question is frankly don't they give any type of training or information to people who become FFL's??? With my regular guy retired I've been looking around for a new "regular" and this type of utter ignorance of the laws they supposedly work under seems rampid
Have a Ruger MKII that's giving me some light strikes, Ruger says send it back Fed-ex or UPS next day. I think "Hey the dealer can send it USPS cheaper even after a fee ) BUT he tells me it has to go UPS from his shop and I have to pay him $25 on top of shipping for a "tranfer fee"-grand total $64
Gets real fun when I politely decline and say I'll mail it myself from UPS. He states that I cannot send a handgun anywhere UPS or any other way, that they will open the package and find out it's a handgun. I semi-politely tell him I always inform them if it's handgun by law and ship to a FFL or manufacturer next day air which is legal. Now he goes totally off "Thats not LEGAL! I'll call the ATF and they'll be there when you try it!"
I'm sorry to say blueduck lost his cool and said many things at this point... My question is frankly don't they give any type of training or information to people who become FFL's??? With my regular guy retired I've been looking around for a new "regular" and this type of utter ignorance of the laws they supposedly work under seems rampid