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Shooter
- Oct 29, 2009
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Honestly, hopefully you have the capability to distinguish a legitimate buyer from an illegitimate straw purchase or disqualified person from experience, but so long as you act in good faith and take appropriate pre-emptions of duty, there's NOTHING anyone, not even the (in)famous F-Troop, can do to you. Regulations are worded to designed to put the fear of God into you, but so long as you make some reasonably thorough attempt to verify that the buyer is legitimate (LTCH, prior bill of sale from dealer, DL to confirm age, or some other reasonable tactic), and s/he seems legitimate, the only thing anyone could do in the already-unlikely event that the purchaser is not legitimate would be to sit on their thumbs and spin... in that situation, you have faithfully and to the letter of the law fulfilled your duty as seller to comply with the law - and if the purchaser is acting in bad faith or willfully misrepresenting themselves, it's on them. This of course is not an ideal situation to be put in regardless, but short of having the State database at your fingertips, you're not going to know - or be able to know - if someone is disqualified from purchasing arms.
For instance, someone could even have a copy of their LTCH, later been convicted of a felony (and as we all know, thus disqualified themselves), and then presented that as evidence of legitimacy in an attempted purchase from you - and for all you are capable of determining, it would appear to be legitimate: there's no way to know that said person is lying through their teeth to you in retaining a copy of a document which they were supposed to surrender to ISP upon disqualification. While everyone who does transactions FTF should make the effort, we're not omniscient beings, and some people are skilled con-artists. Do your best, but I refuse to tell you to lose sleep over it.
Then again, I am not a lawyer, haven't traded or sold anything I own to anyone, and don't plan to, unless someone has something I really, really want/need...
Anyhow, just two cents from an upstart whippersnapper...
For instance, someone could even have a copy of their LTCH, later been convicted of a felony (and as we all know, thus disqualified themselves), and then presented that as evidence of legitimacy in an attempted purchase from you - and for all you are capable of determining, it would appear to be legitimate: there's no way to know that said person is lying through their teeth to you in retaining a copy of a document which they were supposed to surrender to ISP upon disqualification. While everyone who does transactions FTF should make the effort, we're not omniscient beings, and some people are skilled con-artists. Do your best, but I refuse to tell you to lose sleep over it.
Then again, I am not a lawyer, haven't traded or sold anything I own to anyone, and don't plan to, unless someone has something I really, really want/need...
Anyhow, just two cents from an upstart whippersnapper...