advice on showing a gun.

[Doc45]

Agree with all the others about meeting at an ffl. I've already had one inquiry on a gun I've currently got on Armslist where the buyer was shocked when I mentioned where I wanted to meet so he could look at it and do the transfer-"what transfer paperwork?" Bye bye.

Ok I'll play devil's advocate: so the proverbial "you" sell a gun (let's make it that you bought post 7/13 on paper) to the proverbial "him" without doing the legal stuff. "Him" goes out and does something bad, gun is recovered and comes back to "you" and my oh my, "you" didn't follow the law. What happens to "you"? Unfortunately with our laws now I wouldn't even think of selling off paper-too much to risk loosing.

[KestrelBike]

Agree with all the others about meeting at an ffl. I've already had one inquiry on a gun I've currently got on Armslist where the buyer was shocked when I mentioned where I wanted to meet so he could look at it and do the transfer-"what transfer paperwork?" Bye bye.

Ok I'll play devil's advocate: so the proverbial "you" sell a gun (let's make it that you bought post 7/13 on paper) to the proverbial "him" without doing the legal stuff. "Him" goes out and does something bad, gun is recovered and comes back to "you" and my oh my, "you" didn't follow the law. What happens to "you"? Unfortunately with our laws now I wouldn't even think of selling off paper-too much to risk loosing.

I was just thinking purely in terms of someone trying to rob/mug/rip-off the seller. Happens all the time on craigslist for non-firearms stuff. For the purposes of just "seeing" it, even if you decide to illegally transfer outside of the FFL, at least asking to meet at an FFL provides a much higher chance of filtering out people with criminal intentions.

[Doc45]

I was just thinking purely in terms of someone trying to rob/mug/rip-off the seller. Happens all the time on craigslist for non-firearms stuff. For the purposes of just "seeing" it, even if you decide to illegally transfer outside of the FFL, at least asking to meet at an FFL provides a much higher chance of filtering out people with criminal intentions.

Agree 100%