Private Party Sales

[rondog]

Personally, I don't think most of us would buy an out of state handgun from random bubba anyway.

Hell, I would if it was one I wanted and for a good price! A private seller is a private seller to me, I don't care if he's a Coloradan or a Texan, or a Kansan, or an Okie. Just seems to me that if I bought a pistol from Ol' Bubba in Texas, for example, with no paper trail, what's to say that I didn't already own that pistol in CO, and just took it with me on my journey in case I got a chance to do some plinking? Or, in my case, to go shooting at a range I'm a member of in another state?

I'm certainly NOT advocating doing this as it's illegal as hell, I'm just asking how can it be proven? Or is it also illegal as hell to take a handgun across state lines on a business/camping/fishing/hunting trip?

I do know for a fact you can't go to a gun shop or other licensed gun dealer in another state and buy a handgun, then walk out the door with it. You can buy it, but it has to be shipped to an FFL where you live and then you have to do the 4473 there to pick it up. Been down that road before.

[Irving]

It'd be proven in court when Bubba turns out to be an ATF agent. That's why I was saying people wouldn't do it. It's not illegal to transport guns across state lines. Even with NFA stuff, you only have to send in a form to let them know you're going on vacation or something. You don't even have to report taking an AOW across state lines.

[rondog]

It'd be proven in court when Bubba turns out to be an ATF agent.

Funny, I stopped to buy a Winchester from a guy in Glenwood Springs once, and he turned out to be an FBI agent! I didn't know this, I just arranged to meet him at his office as it was near I-70. Helluva nice guy, all he asked for was a bill of sale. Nice little Winnie Trapper in .44mag too. Wasn't any different than buying a rifle in a WalMart parking lot, just a little more privacy was all.

He did keep the rifle in his hands and in a rifle case though, until we got to my vehicle and could discretely transfer it into my case. He didn't request or demand this, he just didn't hand it over when I gave him the cash. I noticed that he maintained possession of it, but I didn't say anything because I knew why he did so. His office was in a multi-use office building where everybody there knew he was an FBI agent, but a stranger like me carrying a rifle case around would raise some eyebrows. All was very cool.