Thought I would share my most recent experience with selling a gun to someone in Cali. I had listed an antique gun on gun broker and the buyer happened to be in California. I decided to start looking up laws regarding shipping the gun since it's made before 1898 and I found out I could mail it to him directly (well so I thought). Anywhere else in the county I could mail it to him directly but of course California with their crazy laws made me mail it to an ffl. Ok not a big deal and I explained to the buyer he would just have to stop by his local ffl and pick up the gun but I said I would find out the fees and get back to him. I called his ffl and inquired about the transfer fees so I could let the buyer know what to expect. This is where it gets good. The gun shop employee told me there is a $75 transfer fee and than I must send an invoice with the gun so they can also charge him tax on the purchase!!! All I can say is thank god I live in Indy.
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Another reason to hate California
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Twangbanger
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Probably good advice above. Folks in CA are so used to being hosed, I wouldn't be surprised if some shops are just skipping the Vaseline now. Where in CA is it? There's a lot of gun enthusiasts but you have to drive a pretty good distance between shops in some places...they probably figure a lot of people won't do it.
venenoindy
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I don't consider CA part of the USA myself, I know there is still good people that live in that state but for the time being I avoid spending any kind of money of any business base out of Cali.
