Correct.Mike1951 wrote:The dealer must record receipt of the firearm into their 'bound book' or computer alternate as well as the disposal when you pick it up.
They had to take the time to send their FFL to your seller and spend time with you at pickup.
At the store where I work, in Hobbs, NM, we charge $45. We're the only place in Hobbs that does transfers. I'm not sure if the store in Lovington does them or not. If not, then it's along dang drive to Carlsbad or Roswell to pick up a gun, so people pay the $45.
I live in Texas though. I had a pistol transferred from a store in Hobbs to a dealer in Seminole, TX. They charged me $25. Another store, in Brownfield, TX, told me they also charge $25.
It's just time and paperwork for the dealer. Probably faxing an FFL to whoever you're buying the piece from, receiving it, unpacking, logging into our book, calling you (assuming either you or the person who shipped it gave us your number), doing the 4473 business, logging it out of our book . . . maybe 20-30 minutes we have in it. So $25-50 for a half-hour's work may seem like a lot. But it's something we're not otherwise making any money off of and it's a gun that a local customer is not buying from us. We could just say we don't have time to fool with it. But it gets people into the store who might not normally come in as well as providing a service to our regulars. And maybe we can sell them some ammo, cleaning products, or a case for their new gun. So it all works out.