How does Illinois waiting period work with out-of-state purchases?

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You guys catch some serious flack when you try to buy a gun..I go to my gun store and within ten minutes im walking out of it with my firearm :)
 
The 72 hours is a cool down period. So, if I'm angry at someone and I go buy a gun to kill them, I have to wait, and then after a while I cool down and I'm not mad anymore and I go back to the gun store and ask for my money back.

It's pretty difficult for me to stay angry at someone for a whole 72 hours - they would have had to have done something like grabbing my H&K P7M8 and sliding it across a concrete floor to get me so ****** off that I'd still be angry 72 hours later.
 
I just don't get how they justify it as a cool down period, but don't make an exception for transfer purchases. It's been way more than 72 hrs since I paid for my purchase. Sadly, my purchase should arrive today, or at least the USPS is pretending they're going to deliver it today, too bad the FFL is already closed for the day... ugh
 
So I guess I learned that they have certain business hours and thankfully they are open on Saturdays otherwise the 72 waiting period wouldn't even start for me until next Monday.
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In Illinois I'm pretty sure the 72 hour clock starts ticking the minute you agree to buy the gun, not when the background check goes through.
 
Don't some of the fields on the paperwork require the dealer to have info off the gun - like the serial number?

I think the receiving FFL needs to have the firearm in his possession and visualy verify that information is correct - but I could be wrong.

If the receiving FFL didn't have to do that, then I could have filled out the paperwork last week after my payment to goingquiet.com cleared. The florida dealer could have given the serial number, make & model to my recieving FFL here in Illinois, I could have gone and filled out the paperwork and the check FTIP & 72 hr waiting period could have started while the firearm was in transit.

But I don't think that can happen. The obvious thing is - what happens if a situation arises where the receiving FFL get the firearms and it has a different serial number or something, or I though tI was buying a 17L and the seller sent me a 17? Now you've got erroneous documentation filed with the state - kind of messy. I think the state would require better due diligence in checking the accuracy of the paperwrok. I mean - typos do happen, but the process of having the selling FFL tell the receiving FFL the info over the phone seems more error prone. A way to build in a check would be to require the receiving FFL to visually check the information he puts down on the paperwork.

I really don't know though... I'll ask Mike when I see him in 60 hours or so...
 
Lol I didn't know that. I don't think I would ever go and buy a gun just to kill someone with it when I already own several that are up to the task...well on second thought, people normally throw away there guns after the shooting, so I need to go tell the owner at a local gun store if I ever come in there and demand a" high point" for them to not give it to me :)
 
I didn't know this until today but the receiving FFL in Illinois can call in the paperwork and start the waiting period before he or she recieves the firearm.

So part of the waiting period or even all of it can transpire while an out-of-state purchased firarm is in transit.
 
The law is designed that someone can't just go to a store and walk out with a gun the same day. A person can't have a gun immediately if it has to be shipped.
 
I use a local shop in south elgin that charges $20 a transfer and usually beats gats, cabellas and the gundoctors prices. I just picked up a saiga 12 converted by them and a sig elite and saved $200 from what gats wanted. Www.semperfisupply.com the owner jeremiah provides awesome service
 
I was in Cabela's the other day and some guy used them for an FFL transfer. I didn't hear the whole dispute, but I guess there was a miscommunication over the phone or something and the guy thought he was only going to pay $20.00 to pick the gun up - but Cabella's charges like $70.00 or something for a transfer. Man this guy was LIVID !

I called there to inquire about a transfer and no one ever got back to me. I can beleive that there was a communication mixup.

This is the bad thing about buying from out-of-state. At that point - you've already parted with the cash - what choice did that guy have really? Ship it back and re-ship it to some other FFL dealer? He had to pay Cabella's to get his gun - that's just the way it is.
 
I use an FFL that is located in Bolingbrook, IL. He is retired Bolingbrook PD and a real pleasure to deal with. He is the only FFL that I will ever use again for a transfer as long as I live in IL. His fee is $20.00 and an addition $5.00 for a second (of the same kind i.e. handgun) if delivered within the same month. He is very knowledgeable and helpful as well. If you would like his contact information just PM me.

Best of luck!
 
I didn't know this until today but the receiving FFL in Illinois can call in the paperwork and start the waiting period before he or she recieves the firearm.

So part of the waiting period or even all of it can transpire while an out-of-state purchased firarm is in transit.
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That's cool because then it doesn't feel like you waited, other than for the shipment to come in. The last time I got something transferred from Bud's, the FFL said the 72 hours start when I fill out the paperwork. The best thing to do is go to the FFL and fill out the paperwork as soon as you order, then the shipping time counts towards the 72 hours.
 
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