I live in a state with laws basically, if you know someone personally or they have an LTC you can sell them a handgun no FFL; rifles are basically the person should not be suspected to you as anything except an upstanding citizen and you can make a sale (resident to resident of course), a bit of a greyer area. Anytime you can of course opt to use an FFL.
For about a year and a half I've been periodically trying to find a decent deal on armslist, private sale very good condition used at a discount below what I gotta pay for something new - my experiences are mostly failure. Seems like this is what I find.
#1 prices typically are the same or more than I'd pay locally for something brand new but seller is steadfast it's a great deal - why is this?
#2 seller never responds to basic query of "hey I'm interested here's my #", never figure out if it's sold or they just don't check email.
#3 very little discount over brand new, ie like 15%, get a hold of seller to maybe work out a deal and they insist on going above & beyond the law to an FFL when they already live 1 hour away - not worth all that over say $150.
#4 the extremely rare instance someone has a price that seems fair, sends you their home address, you make a deal and get your gun, but that happens once for every 10 times you try.
Why is it normally so difficult? Seems like a lot of people constantly trade guns, why is this so hard?
For about a year and a half I've been periodically trying to find a decent deal on armslist, private sale very good condition used at a discount below what I gotta pay for something new - my experiences are mostly failure. Seems like this is what I find.
#1 prices typically are the same or more than I'd pay locally for something brand new but seller is steadfast it's a great deal - why is this?
#2 seller never responds to basic query of "hey I'm interested here's my #", never figure out if it's sold or they just don't check email.
#3 very little discount over brand new, ie like 15%, get a hold of seller to maybe work out a deal and they insist on going above & beyond the law to an FFL when they already live 1 hour away - not worth all that over say $150.
#4 the extremely rare instance someone has a price that seems fair, sends you their home address, you make a deal and get your gun, but that happens once for every 10 times you try.
Why is it normally so difficult? Seems like a lot of people constantly trade guns, why is this so hard?