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Gun Control & RKBA

ProgressiveProfessor

(22,144 posts)

3. Depends entirely on the state

Reply to madeline_con (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 26, 2012, 05:32 PM

Oct 2012

If they require an FFL to do the transaction, an NICS check will be done. There may be other restrictions as well (waiting time...) If the state allow private transactions, a check NICS check cannot be done.

The ad purveyor (online or dead tree) has no responsibility and cannot run a NICS check.

NICS is limited by law to FFL holders only. That can be changed, but some antls would see it as enabling more private party sales.

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Not having ordered a firearm on-line, could those who have done so please clarify... [View all] Eleanors38 Oct 2012 OP

Not having ordered a firearm on-line either..... madeline_con Oct 2012 #1

Depends entirely on the state ProgressiveProfessor Oct 2012 #3

That's interesting: If the "loophole" is closed, some of the controllers would object? Eleanors38 Oct 2012 #5

For some the problem is that an NICS check does not require registration ProgressiveProfessor Oct 2012 #8

all of mine were interstate gejohnston Oct 2012 #2

So, any purchaser in, say, Texas who orders on-line, and the gun is shipped from New York... Eleanors38 Oct 2012 #4

it isn't really purchased on line, it is transferred from one licensed seller to another trouble.smith Oct 2012 #6

Answers depend on whether you are purchasing from an online vendor, or on an auction site slackmaster Oct 2012 #7