Can an FFL buy any gun, anywhere in the US?

[parsimonious_instead]

It occurred to me that perhaps an FFL could buy either a handgun or longarm in any state, because they are a federal dealer. Perhaps if they're on vacation and see an exceptional deal on a used gun.
Is this the case, or do the guns have to be sent back to their home-state shop?

 

[MtnCreek]

FFL can purchase in any State, but can only sell in their State at their place of bus or sanctioned gun show.

 

[tyeo098]

Does thing imply the FFL using their license for personal gain?

 

[parsimonious_instead]

Not personal gain, just if they are able to make a good deal on the spot, rather than having to wait until they get to "home base."

 

[Bubba613]

An FFL can purchase anywhere, anytime. He can dispose of the gun anywhere anytime, but only to another FFL.
It does matter whether he plans on keeping the gun or not.

 

[NavyLCDR]

Does thing imply the FFL using their license for personal gain?

Ummm.... isn't that what the FFL is exactly for?!? If a person is not hoping for personal gain, then they do not require the FFL.

18 USC 921:

(a) As used in this chapter—
(11) The term “dealer” means
(A) any person engaged in the business of selling firearms at wholesale or retail,
(21) The term “engaged in the business” means—
(C) as applied to a dealer in firearms, as defined in section 921 (a)(11)(A), a person who devotes time, attention, and labor to dealing in firearms as a regular course of trade or business with the principal objective of livelihood and profit through the repetitive purchase and resale of firearms,

You don't think that people start businesses without the hope of personal gain from it, do you?

Also, 18 USC 923:

§ 923 Licensing.
(c) Upon the filing of a proper application
and payment of the prescribed fee,
the Attorney General shall issue to a
qualified applicant the appropriate license
which, subject to the provisions of this
chapter and other applicable provisions of
law, shall entitle the licensee to transport,
ship, and receive firearms and ammunition
covered by such license in interstate
or foreign commerce during the period
stated in the license. Nothing in this chapter
shall be construed to prohibit a licensed
manufacturer, importer, or dealer
from maintaining and disposing of a personal
collection of firearms, subject only
to such restrictions as apply in this chapter
to dispositions by a person other than
a licensed manufacturer, importer, or
dealer.

A dealer can buy a handgun in another state, enter it into his bound book as an acquisition, and then transfer that gun to themselves as a disposition, entering their personal information into the bound book, doing a form 4473 and NICS check on themselves. After they have held that firearm in their personal collection for 1 year they can then privately sell that firearm, if they want to.

Read printed page 16 of this document (electronic page 17):
http://www.atf.gov/publications/download/p/atf-p-5300-4.pdf

And on printed page 151 of the above document:

There may be occasions where a
firearms dealer utilizes his license to
acquire firearms for his personal collection.
Such firearms must be entered
in his permanent acquisition
records and subsequently be recorded
as a disposition to himself in
his private capacity.

 

[Jim K]

Two almost true posts. A dealer can buy anywhere, any time, but can sell only to another licensee (dealer, or C&R for C&R items), or to a non-licensee at his place of business or at a sancitoned gun show.

Jim

 

[dogtown tom]

Jim K Two almost true posts. A dealer can buy anywhere, any time, but can sell only to another licensee (dealer, or C&R for C&R items), or to a non-licensee at his place of business or at a sancitoned gun show.

Almost true post #3.
A dealer can only sell at his licensed premises or gun show or other special event IN HIS OWN STATE.

A Texas dealer cannot sell firearms at a gun show in Oklahoma. He can sell C&R eligible firearms to an 03FFL in any state, at any time as long as state law permits.

 

[Bubbles]

Unfortunately even for an FFL/SOT Title II firearms are not cash and carry.

 

[Sport45]

Along the same lines, if the FFL is a Type 3 (C&R) can he take purchase and take possession of a C&R handgun outside of his state of residence?

 

[tyeo098]

Then why are there Florida FFL's (Whcich I've visited in Florida) at the Nations Gun Show in Chantilly?

 

[Midwest]

Then why are there Florida FFL's (Whcich I've visited in Florida) at the Nations Gun Show in Chantilly?

Maybe they also have a FFL for VA as well as FL, and/or maybe the FL FFL's are only dealing with other FFL's in VA?

 

[NavyLCDR]

Along the same lines, if the FFL is a Type 3 (C&R) can he take purchase and take possession of a C&R handgun outside of his state of residence?

Yes.

 

[MtnCreek]

Then why are there Florida FFL's (Whcich I've visited in Florida) at the Nations Gun Show in Chantilly?

Show products and take orders.

 

[Birch Knoll]

FFLs can exhibit at out-of-state gun shows, and they can take orders. They cannot actually transfer any firearms to nonlicensees at the show, but they can complete orders taken at the show once they return to their own premises.

Some FFLs at out-of-state shows transfer their inventory to a cooperating local FFL prior to the show, and have the local FFL handle the transfers for any sales made at the show. After the show, the local FFL transfers any unsold inventory back to the visiting FFL.