Selling a gun from your Personal collection?

[medalguy]

And they did nothing more than post an ad on their site. I had to do all the work on getting the money, arranging the shipping, etc. all the work. So, don't really see why i need them.

All they did was develop one of the premier gun selling sites in the world that draws millions of viewers to their web site daily. How in the world do you think you're going to draw people to your little web site? You state you are very computer literate. Are you BUSINESS literate? The very best web sites in the world don't attract people to them without tons of advertising, and lots of time and money spent in this endeavor. I ran a business for many years, and we had a very successful online sales program. Trust me, this doesn't come cheap.

I won't even go into the possibility of your running afoul of BATFE because you're selling guns with the expectation of making a profit. It's YOU who are selling the gun. Your FFL is merely facilitating the delivery and ultimate transfer to the purchaser. YOU own the gun and YOU are the seller. Best have an FFL for this.

 

[Birch Knoll]

There's nothing wrong with selling a gun with the expectation of making a profit; you don't need an FFL for that. If you're doing it as a regular course of business, you'll need to have an FFL, but occasional sales of personal firearms is fine, profit or not.

 

[Sam1911]

There's nothing wrong with selling a gun with the expectation of making a profit; you don't need an FFL for that. If you're doing it as a regular course of business, you'll need to have an FFL, but occasional sales of personal firearms is fine, profit or not.

Right. The risk in the proposal on the table, from my perspective anyway, is of offering a gun for sale in the setting of a commercial, business venture, and then saying, "oh, but this is my private property not part of my business."

You certainly could argue that it isn't a "regular" part of your business. I'd rather not have to argue with the ATF over it at all.

 

[Birch Knoll]

Right. The risk in the proposal on the table, from my perspective anyway, is of offering a gun for sale in the setting of a commercial, business venture, and then saying, "oh, but this is my private property not part of my business."

If it were to come to ATF's attention, it wouldn't be entirely unreasonable for them to look into the matter as a possible unlicensed dealer. If it is just an occasional sale, then no problem. But who needs a call or visit from an ATF agent?

Of course, unless you happen to have a web site that attracts thousands of potential gun buyers, you'd be silly to list on your own site rather than one of the established gun sale/auction sites.