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thanks for all your help guys!
well here is the updated version .
Today me and my uncle went to the FFL in LA,(just a friendly reminder..he is a LA chl holder,and i m a TX chl holder.i m in LA cause of visiting).got it? ok. let me keep talking.thanks.
so he bought a new handgun in LA FFL. And me? of course i couldn't buy any handguns cause of i m not a LA resident.
Tonight when we were having dinner ,we decided to trade both of our handguns with a bill of sale.(Again,my handgun is from TX,his is from LA.)

well.my question is even we were doing a face to face, family trade or as a gift.do we still need to go thru FFLs since we are doing this interstates.it means..he will have to ship his handgun to TX ffl for me to recieve it and i will have to send mine from TX to LA in order to do it legally?
thanks a lot guys. i know this is kind of long ..but thanks for helping out again!

seamusTX wrote:

ed7232004 wrote:ok here is the tricky part. Is it legal for one Texas resident to sell the firearms to another STATE resident face to face without going thru ffl or doing anyother paper work??

I'm not sure what you are asking.

It is legal for one Texas resident to sell a firearm to another Texas resident with no FFL (with the provisions that I stated earlier).

It is also legal for two residents of Louisiana, Oklahoma, etc., to have a face-to-face transaction with no FFL. Only a few states require private transfers to go through a dealer (Illinois and California, to my knowledge).

It is illegal for residents of different states to transfer firearms without going through a dealer.

- Jim

so far there are 5 ffls telling me that selling from state to state ,face to face private sells are legal. ? Including Texas and louisanna ffls. Why is it so different than what I hear on the forum? Thanks again

seamusTX wrote:

Hoosier Daddy wrote:My experience with in-state sales is different, but maybe there's a Texas law prohibiting private sales.

It is legal for one Texas resident to sell a firearm to another Texas resident (over the age of 17 and sober) face-to-face without going through an FFL or doing any other paperwork.

I said that no common carrier will accept a firearm from an unlicensed (non-FFL) person for delivery to another unlicensed person. I stand by that statement, unless one of the common carriers has changed its policy in the past month or so.

- Jim

ok here is the tricky part. Is it legal for one Texas resident to sell the firearms to another STATE resident face to face without going thru ffl or doing anyother paper work??

So no matter what we will still have to get ffl involved in order to be a legal transfer? Ok.. What about the other way around that I want to transfer my guns to him? I m visiting in LA but with a Texas ID .
And why the ffl here in LA tells me we can do whatever we want with the guns.. No need ffl involved in private sells? Thanks guys

I have a question for u guys please help. I m a Texas chl holder . Can my uncle ( louisanna chl holder) transfer or sell his guns to me ? Do I need any paper work or anything ? Is it legal? Thanks guys by the way it is a handgun