California One-Gun-A-Month-Law

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I am a little confused on the California One-Gun-A-Month-Law. My understanding is that this restricts purchases from a licensed dealer to one handgun a month. But lets say that the following happens: I purchase a pistol from a local dealer. A few days after the purchase, I see another pistol on Gunsamerica that I wish to acquire. Would I still have to wait 30 days before I can get my local FFL dealer to get the pistol off of Gunsmaerica, and begin the processing on it? Suppose, I have a friend (who lives in California),who wishes to sell me a pistol, but I have already purchased one from a dealer. Do I still have to wait 30 days in order to do a transfer?

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ASG
 
ASG exactly... you must wait 30 days to buy the next one... what you can do is pay for it... have it transfered to your FFL wait the 30 days before you start the paper work on it.... of course you will have to wait the additional 10 days for your cooling off period. Which will bring the total wait to 40 days in this case. Or if it is a friend just buy it and skip all the garbage. If you are ever brought up on trial and I'm on the jury you can count on my not guilty vote.



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Richard

The debate is not about guns,
but rather who has the ultimate power to rule,
the People or Government.
RKBA!
 
Technically, you can buy as many hand guns as your friendly FFL dealer will agree to "hold" for you. If any dealer tries to process more than one DROS for a hand gun in a 30 day period in your name, it will be rejected. If you find a great deal on GunsAmerica, but your 30-days aren't up, ask your dealer if he'll hold it for you until your window opens. It means you have to put the money out and wait, but sometimes you hate to let that "one in a million" get away.

Stupid law and will be proven ineffective, but that won't stop the small-minded gun haters.
 
ASG,
I have the DOJ bulletin on this law that was sent to Cali FFLs in front of me as I type.
Private party transfers do not come under the 30 day rule. This law applies to purchases from a FFL.

Quote from the bulletin:

"This new law prohibits California firearm dealers from selling/transferring title of any handgun to any person who has already acquired a handgun within the State of Califronia in the past thiry (30) days.

There are several categories of persons/entities exempt from the new requirement, listed in PC Section 12072, including:

Any private party sale or transfer conducted through a licensed dealer pursuant to PC Section 12082 (sale or transfer between two non-licensees)."
 
Thanks mrat for the info on that.... I should read the law a little better. Nice to know that we have another loop-hole... Might be a way that those who can't afford their one-a-month to make a little extra cash? or pick up credits towards a new gun? Here's how it would work.... you go to a gun store and hire yourself out as a go-between. You buy the gun and then sell it to the customer who already has purchased their one gun for the month. The retailer handles the transfer between the private parties. You would sell the gun for say $10 or $20 more than you bought it.... You could only do this once a month, but hey that would be $120-$240 per year towards a gun of your own. Would help the dealers sell more guns and would make those of us who happen to find a pair of something special very happy.



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Richard

The debate is not about guns,
but rather who has the ultimate power to rule,
the People or Government.
RKBA!
 
I became aware of this law when I purchased a gun and filled out the paperwork for my ten day wait. The DOJ took my money and sent back notification to my FFL that I needed to wait thirty days. Now, I did not purchase from my FFL, but rather from an out of state source. Where in the paperwork that my FFL sent in does it ask for the source of the gun? I haven't really looked at all of the paperwork, but if it doesn't ask ( it may ) then how would they know where the gun came from?
 
I've been searching the bill for the exemption for private, non-FFL purchase and can not find it. It is a rather long bill. Mrat can you post the section?
 
And this is why the NRA lead by the dubious
Wayne the sell-out Lapieere supports
closing the 'gunshow loophole' so you will have very little hope of circumventing such nice helpful facist I mean state laws.
OH but heck theyll make sure you can register your gun in 24 hours instead of waiting up to 3 days to so as HCI insists.
We should all be thankful and sign up to supoprt this patriotic move.

Patriot.45

Never leaving well enough alone.
www.gunowners.org www.jpfo.org www.ccops.org www.citizensofamerica.org www.keepandbeararms.org

the far right wing
 
Gary H,
I think this is the section that exempts private party transfers that DOJ is refering to in their bulletin:

"(viii) Any transaction conducted through a licensed dealer pursuant to Section 12082."

If you do a private party transfer you need to make sure the FFL checks the box on Dealers Record Of Sale Of Firearm Worksheet that says:

"Transaction exempt from the 1-handgun-per-30-day limit"



[This message has been edited by mrat (edited October 01, 2000).]
 
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