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Originally Posted by Eric Coffey
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Many won't, but plenty will. It's usually those ignorant of the process and/or high-volume dealers that don't want to deal with returns from buyers trying to purchase firearms that are not CA-approved/legal.
Also, dealer purchase is just one option. Lots of private-party sales/sellers out there willing to ship to CA.
Wrong.
There are plenty of home-based FFL's in CA. I've dealt with (shipped to) several over the years.
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I was a Home FFl dealer when I lived in San Bernardino county. It depended on the city and county...maybe the state, county and city govt have changed their policies? The trend over the years especially in CA is ever tighter restrictions with more and more compliance paperwork. IF a Dealer sells into CA they have to call the CA DOJ to get the super secret password which then gets whispered to the CA Dealer so he can pass it back on to the CA DOJ... Even CA C&R holder purchase of qualifying C&R guns have to be shipped to a CA FFL where they can just go in and pick them up (this sounds like a sales tax issue) . sound like a hassle it is..
In CA they passed a Saturday Night Special law ostensibly to keep poor quality guns from being sold. Every handgun gun now has to be submitted by the mfg to a Drop Test testing to be approved for sale in CA.. Thus the APPROVED LIST. If a mfg has discontinued a gun they are not going to submit it for testing and it does not get approval. Gun dealers can not own for sale in CA any gun that is not on the approved list..they can sell it out of state. If a gun is over 50 years old BY SERIAL NUMBER it can be sold without state approval by a Dealer. A Dealer CAN take in a gun that is not on the Approved list and sell it on consignment. Or a private party can sell it to another private party provided that they do the back ground checks. Federal law states that anything made before 1898 is an Antique and is exempt from all restrictions. it is virtually not even considered to be a gun. Modern replicas that fire fixed cartridges are not exempt.
Then to be a Dealer in CA you have to have a Resale #, A city Business License which needs law enforcement approval, a State Certificate of Eligibility every year, a State Certificate of Compliance? which defers cost of site inspection for compliance evey year. Then when you comply with all the State and Local laws the BATF will give you a FFL license. In many jurisdictions you have to have Store Front by city or county ordinace to qualify for a license. Here I imagine that a city or county might state that you have to have public point of entrance and egress along with the BATF requirement of telling them your hours of opeartion.. Also inventory storage is something that they like to monitor. Is it a hassle yes, is it designed to discourage people from the gun trade YOU BET. Did I forget the BATF has the right to inspect the licensed premise anytime they like...
Now you have to do a back ground check on Ammo??? CA even before I left ALLOWED only one hand gun purchase a month.
Now what have I missed, it has been quite a while since I checked on what is going on in CA. The receiving Dealer has to collect sale tax on out of state purchases... lots of times the seller has to collect local sales tax if it is going to a private party in another state. The same thing is happening with the collection of internet sales taxes
For instance if I purchase a gun that is less than 50 years old by Sn out of state I have to pay for shipping and it has to be sent to a local FFL Dealer. Who then charges a RECEIVING & Background Check fee of at least $50.00, I then have to pay the local sales tax on the purchase. Now some Auctioneers will only send to FFL Dealers and not C&R holders so that local sales tax can be collected Ever tightening of the screws..as the govt gets DESPERATE to collect every dime they can.
I have a friend who gave up his license years ago because the City where he was licensed was giving him too much grief..over compliance issues.
I have been dealing with these issues since 1979...and compliance issues since 85.