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The only kind of private sale that is legal is actually physically meeting with the person and giving it to them. If you're mailing it, you have to give it to a
by koenigdavidmj 11y ago
The only kind of private sale that is legal is actually physically meeting with the person and giving it to them. If you're mailing it, you have to give it to a gun shop near you, who mail it to a gun shop near the recipient, and they do a background check of the person before the last hop.
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- aggieben 11y agoThat's pretty much how FB sales go. A: "I have this gun I"ll sell for $400." B: "I will buy it from you." A: "Ok. Let's meet at the police station parking lot. What time is good for you?" B: "How about 5:30?" A: "Ok, see you there."
- gravypod 11y agoYes, but these sales should be otherwise legal with records of the transaction now kept by Facebook. Most states require you to show firearms purchaser IDs, called FID in my home state as well as a drivers license. To acquire a FID, you need to go through a background check. This is how you are meant to know if the person is "safe to sell to". If people in state X have a problem with that, then they should get together and find a solution to it. Until then I don't think I can justify to myself censoring an otherwise completely legal discussion, especially when such a discussion can be used as a record of a sale that would otherwise not be present. That's just my two cents.
- refurb 11y agoMost states require you to show firearms purchaser IDs Minor point, but there aren't that many states that have firearm purchaser IDs. NY, NJ, MA, IL are a few, but most states don't require anything more than a driver's license.
- gravypod 11y agoThat's why I did say "If people in state X have a problem with that, then they should get together and find a solution to it."
- aggieben 11y agoI had to re-read this about three times to figure out that I agree with you ;-) The "yes, but..." really threw me off.