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Post by bartiks on Dec 16, 2015 20:54:12 GMT -5
Just curious if anyone has one and how difficult it is to get one? I've toyed around with the idea of it, however didn't really know if it would benefit me more than the costs of getting it.
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Post by bullseye69 on Dec 16, 2015 22:43:09 GMT -5
I know you have to have what they call a store front.
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Post by stevein on Dec 17, 2015 9:17:55 GMT -5
I don't think it is that hard to get. The storefront can be in your house if you want it there. But you may need to get a zoning varience in order to do that. You may need a sales tax license too, everyone wants their piece of the action. You can do quite a bit of gun trading without a FFL and all the paper work that goes with it. A call to the NRA may get you some better info on what you can and can't do along with tips on getting the license.
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Post by single_shooter on Dec 23, 2015 0:00:29 GMT -5
A buddy of mine did it a few years ago and the ATF made it a royal pain. Used to be you could list your residence as your business, but not any more. They require a physical storefront...so he had to put a wall up in one end of his pole barn/garage behind the house, give it it's own physical address and use that as his "store".
I know I wouldn't go through the jumping through hoops they want you to do these days...and it seems to me that the market is flooded with dealers and they all have the same stuff at the same price...YMMV
And let's not even go down the road if you live in a town where they suddenly think you'll be shooting guns in your back yard. This happened to a friend of mine in Indiana. He tried to get an FFL at his new house just outside a small town and he made front page news in their local paper and was the hot topic for a couple months at the town board meetings. He had to go in and try to convince them that he was not putting in a shooting range, that he was not doing anything that would endanger his neighbors...got to be a nightmare real quick. People have a tendency to overreact when they hear "guns", even in a small town.
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