FFL to FFL transfers. Why?

[DigMe]

This irks me to no end when I want to have someone receive a transfer for me. I've argued with gun dealers before who SWORE that it had to come from another FFL and invariably they just get mad and don't want to have anything else to do with me. It's BS and it can often increase your cost to ship fairly drastically.

I DO think a lot of dealers just don't know the law. It's very clear what the law is on the ATF website and Texas has no other laws regarding such. If a texas FFL dealer says the law requires that it must come from an FFL then he's either misinformed or lying.

I've heard of ATF agents actually telling gun store owners that it must come from another FFL but that is clearly a contradiction of the stated law. That irks me even more because these guys should know the law more than anyone...certainly more than me!

brad cook

 

[EOD Guy]

You appear to be correct. I can see how his statement could be read that way and that it was probably his intent.

 

[GRB]

yep that is what I meant, which is basically that under authority granted bya C&R, a C&R holder can only receive C&R firearms. He would need another type of license, such as a dealer's license, to recieive non C&R modern firearms.

 

[GRB]

By the way, for those who have not used it before, BATFE has a pretty good website that addresses almost all of these issues sonewhere. So if you get someone not in the know you can direct them to the website for a speedy review of the regs. The thing is sometimes the way they write things leaves it open to interpretation, then you need to contact them by mail - not email but by snail mail for a definitive answer or, I think they also answer questions by telephone - but I do like some paper when it comes to he said, she said kind of things.

All the best, Glenn B