firearm sale question

[Opie]

i can run simple background checks, im a law student so i have access to a couple databases. it's not an amazing system, but it will detect felonies and whatnot.

your not required to look for a reason not to sell him the gun, you just cant sell it to him if you know he cant own it. so if he told you that he wanted to buy your gun because he tried to buy a gun from retail chain and was declined or maybe if he said he really liked your gun because his cell mate talked highly of them

We have a winner!

[03Lightningrocks]

I have always found it interesting that fellers from a forum that caters to firearm owners, would want to add gun restrictions of their own while proclaiming to be for the RTKBA.

[tomc]

Ya'll keep in mind that only pistols are restricted to in-state sales only. Long guns, rifles and shotguns, are free to be sold to out-of-state residents as long as state law allows for it which Texas does and you know of no reason the purchaser would be forbidden to own firearms. Only a very few states prohibit long gun sales to out-of-state residents. Any FFL please correct me if i'm wrong.

[hirundo82]

Ya'll keep in mind that only pistols are restricted to in-state sales only. Long guns, rifles and shotguns, are free to be sold to out-of-state residents as long as state law allows for it which Texas does and you know of no reason the purchaser would be forbidden to own firearms. Only a very few states prohibit long gun sales to out-of-state residents. Any FFL please correct me if i'm wrong.

Not an FFL (well, not a retail FFL), but that's incorrect. A private citizen may not transfer any firearm to a person who is not a resident of their state. An FFL may transfer a rifle of shotgun to a resident of another state as long as the laws of both state allow it.

18 USC §922
(a) It shall be unlawful—
(5) for any person (other than a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, licensed dealer, or licensed collector) to transfer, sell, trade, give, transport, or deliver any firearm to any person (other than a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, licensed dealer, or licensed collector) who the transferor knows or has reasonable cause to believe does not reside in (or if the person is a corporation or other business entity, does not maintain a place of business in) the State in which the transferor resides; except that this paragraph shall not apply to
(A) the transfer, transportation, or delivery of a firearm made to carry out a bequest of a firearm to, or an acquisition by intestate succession of a firearm by, a person who is permitted to acquire or possess a firearm under the laws of the State of his residence, and
(B) the loan or rental of a firearm to any person for temporary use for lawful sporting purposes;

Short version: private party sales between residents of different states are always illegal.