Hi Folks,
My Dad in Connecticut has purchased a new handgun for me, I live in California.
How can we transfer it? I though there was special lenience when the transfer was Father-to-Son. I am being told that I only have two choices:
1) Have him take to his local FFL, who after receiving a signed FFL certificate from my local FFL, will mail it to my local FFL. Then I go through the full background check and ten day waiting period, just as if I had purchased the handgun here myself. It also counts as one of my "one-a-month" handgun purchases. Yikes! What a hassle! And it will cost $41 in various fees.
2) I happening to be driving out to visit the Connecticut side of the family, so I was thinking I could just pick up the gun and bring it home. But I am told that even if I do that, when I return to CA, I must take the gun to my local FFL, and go through a "person to person transfer" process, which it was implied involves the same 10 waiting period, background check, and it still counts as a "one a month" purchase. But this process only costs $31 in various fees. Not much better.
I am also told I can't even "borrow" the gun for more than 30 days, without either returning it, or registering it as mine. Sigh.
Is this how it is? Are these my only options? What about that "Gun Show Loophole" that supposedly allows people to buy guns from a private individual "without a background check"? Are they are supposed to be bringing those purchases to their local FFL for the "person-to-person transfer" procedure?
Help!
I want my new baby!!
Thomas
My Dad in Connecticut has purchased a new handgun for me, I live in California.
How can we transfer it? I though there was special lenience when the transfer was Father-to-Son. I am being told that I only have two choices:
1) Have him take to his local FFL, who after receiving a signed FFL certificate from my local FFL, will mail it to my local FFL. Then I go through the full background check and ten day waiting period, just as if I had purchased the handgun here myself. It also counts as one of my "one-a-month" handgun purchases. Yikes! What a hassle! And it will cost $41 in various fees.
2) I happening to be driving out to visit the Connecticut side of the family, so I was thinking I could just pick up the gun and bring it home. But I am told that even if I do that, when I return to CA, I must take the gun to my local FFL, and go through a "person to person transfer" process, which it was implied involves the same 10 waiting period, background check, and it still counts as a "one a month" purchase. But this process only costs $31 in various fees. Not much better.
I am also told I can't even "borrow" the gun for more than 30 days, without either returning it, or registering it as mine. Sigh.
Is this how it is? Are these my only options? What about that "Gun Show Loophole" that supposedly allows people to buy guns from a private individual "without a background check"? Are they are supposed to be bringing those purchases to their local FFL for the "person-to-person transfer" procedure?
Help!
I want my new baby!!Thomas