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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
But your FFL (and perhaps livelihood) shouldn't be dependent on local zoning laws. They have nothing to do with federal law and BATF has no authority to enforce local zoning laws. The FFL I used in VA was shut down by BATF because of this. He's a home builder in his day job, doesn't live in an HOA, has a single family house on some acreage, had no violations and, because of his day job, is pretty competent at dealing with city and county zoning regs. Turns out they had changed just as his renewal time came up.
The guy I use in Phoenix finally did open a storefront because he was pretty sure he'd get shut down if he remained home-based.
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Well, truthfully, zoning laws are in place for a reason. I can't open an Auto shop in my subdivision, nor can I expand my business to more foot traffic, without petitioning for rezoning or moving. My choices would be to move my business, rework my business model to more internet-only, or shut down. I don't feel like that's too much of a burden.
The ATF requirement is to comply with all local and state laws.