Madcap_Magician
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Besides the usual "Will you trade your Glock/Beretta/Colt/S&W for my Taurus/Hi-Point and $50..."
A week ago I put a Beretta 92A1 up on Armslist and got an e-mail from a guy who offered $575.
I said, sure, let's meet.
So we meet, and he doesn't have a permit to carry or a permit to purchase (required by state law for dealer transfers, required by me personally for personal sales as a matter of due diligence in making sure the buyer is eligible to possess).
He says he works for DHS, and I basically say "Cool, where's your permit?"
And he says it's on his tac vest at home.
I shrug and say, well, let's meet tomorrow and remember to bring it this time.
This morning I get an e-mail that says he's not going to buy the gun because he's a cop and they don't need to have a permit, and he "doesn't feel comfortable buying from someone who doesn't know the law."
To the best of my knowledge, there is no exemption from the permit requirement in state law. I am a CCW instructor and have both thoroughly and repeatedly read our state laws on carry and purchase of handguns and taken a Criminal Code class.
So I sent him a nice little e-mail telling him that there is no permit requirement for ANY private sale in MN, but that I require it personally, and that he never identified himself as a sworn law enforcement officer and I wouldn't have cared if he had.
Now he's all squirrelly and I've lost a sale, which I needed to make a purchase myself this weekend.
>.<
Anybody else got fun Armslist stories?
A week ago I put a Beretta 92A1 up on Armslist and got an e-mail from a guy who offered $575.
I said, sure, let's meet.
So we meet, and he doesn't have a permit to carry or a permit to purchase (required by state law for dealer transfers, required by me personally for personal sales as a matter of due diligence in making sure the buyer is eligible to possess).
He says he works for DHS, and I basically say "Cool, where's your permit?"
And he says it's on his tac vest at home.
I shrug and say, well, let's meet tomorrow and remember to bring it this time.
This morning I get an e-mail that says he's not going to buy the gun because he's a cop and they don't need to have a permit, and he "doesn't feel comfortable buying from someone who doesn't know the law."
To the best of my knowledge, there is no exemption from the permit requirement in state law. I am a CCW instructor and have both thoroughly and repeatedly read our state laws on carry and purchase of handguns and taken a Criminal Code class.
So I sent him a nice little e-mail telling him that there is no permit requirement for ANY private sale in MN, but that I require it personally, and that he never identified himself as a sworn law enforcement officer and I wouldn't have cared if he had.
Now he's all squirrelly and I've lost a sale, which I needed to make a purchase myself this weekend.
>.<
Anybody else got fun Armslist stories?
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