Selling Firearms
If you sell a firearm to an individual, is there any way of removing your name as the owner of the gun? Thanks.
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I suppose you are talking about some type registration system that shows you as the owner. I know of no way to remove your name but that is probably a matter of state registration laws. There is no federal registration. To protect yourself and the purchaser I would write up a bill of sale containing at a minimum the date, make, model and serial number of the gun. It should also contain a driver's license number of each of you and both should sign. This should be adequate evidence to show you no longer own the gun. I am not a lawyer and this opinion is based on experience and, what I consider, common sense.
Additional: If you, as an unlicensed individual, are selling the gun to an unlicensed resident of a different state than your state of residence the documentation I described might be sufficient evidence to get you convicted in federal court. Be sure you know the law on interstate gun transfers.0 -
Herschel is correct, there is no federal firearms registration.
However, where you live (city/county/state), what type of firearm, & how you got it, are really needed to correctly answer your question.
But, if this sort of problem concerns you, then the only way you should sell any firearm is to insist that the buyer go with you to a dealer & pay the dealer to process the transaction. This will create a legal record of the firearm transfer.
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Save yourself the dealer fee. Having both of you sign the paper listing the particulars is also a legal record of the transaction. Both of you keep a copy. Your copy shows you disposed of the gun legally (assuming you sold it to a qualified buyer) and his copy shows he got it legally and didn't steal it from you. [:)] 0 -
I will like to add my .02 cents. When I purchase a new firearm I'm listed as the owner and it would be traced back to me, if I were ever to sell it.
I will only resell a new purchased gun to a legitimate dealer. I can tell the authorities (if it falls in the wrong hands) that so and so gun store bought the gun off me.
Used guns are a whole different matter. Who knows how many people owned it.
If I sell to a private individual he can deny the sale took place unless he signed a bill of sale from me.
So if your the original owner of a new firearm, and you sold it to gangbanger freddy and he does a bank job and drops the gun, pull your slip out that freddy signed and show the authorities.....if you have it.[:0]0 -
Personally, I try not to let ANY gun that has passed out of federal eyes go back in by sending it back through an FFL, unless ABSOLUTELY necessary, such as for an interstate transaction. [xx(] Once it's out, keep it out! You can quite easily CYA if you bought it at a store by writing up a bill of sale, including pertinent information like the DL number or even his auto license number on your buyer, and having him sign it. Then it goes in your personal files and never sees federal A-hole scrutiny unless some LEO comes knocking because it was found at a crime scene. Then you pull out the bill of sale. But, until that day, there is no reason to unnecessarily put a gun back on the feds' books! [xx(] Besides, there really isn't much to be worried about if you bought the gun in a store in Atlanta and it turns up 10 years later at a gang bang shooting in LA. That is, unless you were there doing the shooting and dropped the gun. [:D] It happens all the time since a lot of the guns criminals use are obtained illegally anyway. The original store buyer is rarely under any suspicion unless there are other corroborating bits of evidence, like motive, opportunity, and method. Simply having been the first to purchase the gun at a store isn't going to get you a murder conviction. [;)] 0
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