I'm taking that Penn Foster Gunsmith Course, mainly to increase my own knowledge.
Several of the lessons clearly state that you have to have a FFL to work on other peoples' guns, but the lesson on the FFL says the license isn't needed if I only do work for others on occasion.
So which is correct? If it helps, the FFL lesson was written in 1997.
If you don't have to have a FFL, then what qualifies as occasional work? Since the BATF is involved, is it whatever the individual agents decide is occasional?
Would I be okay tuning and repairing the guns of my friends and family? What about posting a flyer in the local gunshop and doing odd jobs? Talking 1-2 a month at the very most, things like mounting scopes, and repairing stocks.
Also if I was to make a habit of searching out junk guns and nursing them back to health before selling them would that make me a firearms dealer in their eyes? If so, I'd need a license?
So basically what I want to know is can you do gunsmithing work without a FFL?
Several of the lessons clearly state that you have to have a FFL to work on other peoples' guns, but the lesson on the FFL says the license isn't needed if I only do work for others on occasion.
So which is correct? If it helps, the FFL lesson was written in 1997.
If you don't have to have a FFL, then what qualifies as occasional work? Since the BATF is involved, is it whatever the individual agents decide is occasional?
Would I be okay tuning and repairing the guns of my friends and family? What about posting a flyer in the local gunshop and doing odd jobs? Talking 1-2 a month at the very most, things like mounting scopes, and repairing stocks.
Also if I was to make a habit of searching out junk guns and nursing them back to health before selling them would that make me a firearms dealer in their eyes? If so, I'd need a license?
So basically what I want to know is can you do gunsmithing work without a FFL?
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