I was a at gun show not long ago and was trying to sell one of my guns. I'm not too brushed up on my gun laws of do's and dont's but I was told that at a gun show, you can pretty much buy, sell, trade guns quite freely. Anway, a man approaches me and was interested in buying it. After agreeing to the price, his actions made me a little leary.
1) He said he didn't want to count out the money in front of everyone so he asked if I could go out to his truck which was parked right in front. I didn't think much of it so I agreed.
2) On our way out, he stated that he had an out of state license but was in process of moving. Now I do know that if I shipped it to an out of state buyer, I need to send it to FFL but wasnt too sure of face to face transactions. Also, at the time I only knew of a couple rules of private sales which is A) I have to have reasonable suspicion that he is not a felon and B) proof that he is over 21. Which he passed both.
3) When it came time to pay as he counted out his money and I was filling out the bill of sale, he asked me to put my hand print on the back of the sheet of paper for 'just in case'.
At that point, it got just a little too weird. I told him that I didn't feel 100% comfortable that I was doing everything by the books and needed some time to brush up on the rules. I walked away with my firearm and went back inside. What do you guys think. What kind of opinion or advice can you give?
1) He said he didn't want to count out the money in front of everyone so he asked if I could go out to his truck which was parked right in front. I didn't think much of it so I agreed.
2) On our way out, he stated that he had an out of state license but was in process of moving. Now I do know that if I shipped it to an out of state buyer, I need to send it to FFL but wasnt too sure of face to face transactions. Also, at the time I only knew of a couple rules of private sales which is A) I have to have reasonable suspicion that he is not a felon and B) proof that he is over 21. Which he passed both.
3) When it came time to pay as he counted out his money and I was filling out the bill of sale, he asked me to put my hand print on the back of the sheet of paper for 'just in case'.
At that point, it got just a little too weird. I told him that I didn't feel 100% comfortable that I was doing everything by the books and needed some time to brush up on the rules. I walked away with my firearm and went back inside. What do you guys think. What kind of opinion or advice can you give?