Painterman121212
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Multiple Handgun Form
OK, so I don't normally buy a lot of guns at once, in fact it's rare. But I'm moving to NC in a couple weeks and you have to actually buy permits to get a gun whereas in South Carolina you just need your license.
So I went into a "chain store" with multiple locations a few days ago and bought multiple handguns. Didn't really think anything of it.
I got 5% off of list price and I personally thought I should've gotten more! So in the process of Googling about what kind of a discount should I have received for a $3500 purchase, an off reference link came up about some ATF form requiring all FFL dealers to fill it out and send it to the ATF when buying 2 or more at the same time.
That's kind of pissed me off because I thought it should've been mentioned to me and in fact I was quite irate that nobody did mention it to me.
Not that I'm doing anything illegal, but it's the principle of the matter. A man should be able to buy a few guns and not have set off fireworks drawing attention to my purchase that automatically labels me as anything other than I am, someone trying to buy a few guns before I move!!!
In short it's nobody's damn business!!!
But that's not the purpose of this post. The purpose of this post is I called the guy back up to raise hell and the guy was like "Huh? What form? We don't report anything like that? I've never heard of any such form?"
Now he is the one that filled out all the paperwork for me and put all the purchases on one form. He then went and asked somebody else and they had never heard of it either.
For kicks, I called another one of their locations in the same city and asked the same question, if I buy multiple handguns do you have to fill out this form? His reply? What form?
Seeing as this is a chain and not some mommy and daddy outfit, I can't help but speculate this has to be a common body of knowledge by this point and these people have to be aware of this law, as I'm sure corporate does some kind of a training.
What am I missing here? Are they the most ignorant people on earth, or are they just refusing to do so because it's not mandatory, or am I reading my research wrong that I have just spent over an hour on, reading every possible article I could, saying they have to??!
Enlighten me someone!
OK, so I don't normally buy a lot of guns at once, in fact it's rare. But I'm moving to NC in a couple weeks and you have to actually buy permits to get a gun whereas in South Carolina you just need your license.
So I went into a "chain store" with multiple locations a few days ago and bought multiple handguns. Didn't really think anything of it.
I got 5% off of list price and I personally thought I should've gotten more! So in the process of Googling about what kind of a discount should I have received for a $3500 purchase, an off reference link came up about some ATF form requiring all FFL dealers to fill it out and send it to the ATF when buying 2 or more at the same time.
That's kind of pissed me off because I thought it should've been mentioned to me and in fact I was quite irate that nobody did mention it to me.
Not that I'm doing anything illegal, but it's the principle of the matter. A man should be able to buy a few guns and not have set off fireworks drawing attention to my purchase that automatically labels me as anything other than I am, someone trying to buy a few guns before I move!!!
In short it's nobody's damn business!!!
But that's not the purpose of this post. The purpose of this post is I called the guy back up to raise hell and the guy was like "Huh? What form? We don't report anything like that? I've never heard of any such form?"
Now he is the one that filled out all the paperwork for me and put all the purchases on one form. He then went and asked somebody else and they had never heard of it either.
For kicks, I called another one of their locations in the same city and asked the same question, if I buy multiple handguns do you have to fill out this form? His reply? What form?
Seeing as this is a chain and not some mommy and daddy outfit, I can't help but speculate this has to be a common body of knowledge by this point and these people have to be aware of this law, as I'm sure corporate does some kind of a training.
What am I missing here? Are they the most ignorant people on earth, or are they just refusing to do so because it's not mandatory, or am I reading my research wrong that I have just spent over an hour on, reading every possible article I could, saying they have to??!
Enlighten me someone!