Quoted: My reading of the law is that it IS legal for California residents to purchase long arms out-of-state, provided it would be legal for you to purchase the same item in California. Thus, unless the law of the state where you were purchasing the item prohibited out-of-state residents from purchasing long guns, you could. There should be no problem with your buying, for example, a Remington 700 in another state. I considered buying a Remington 870 in NY State as a California resident, which would have been perfectly legal since I can buy one here.
However, it would NOT be legal for an FFL to sell you an AR-15 (or other Assault Weapon) out-of-state, because you could not legally purchase one here anymore (since the registration period closed long ago). Since your question pertains to an AR-15, the short answer to your specific question is "not through an FFL." I looked into this specific issue a couple of years ago, when I found a great deal on a couple of Eagle AR lowers in NY. After researching the problem, I determined that the FFL would get in trouble if he sold me the receivers (which I intended to leave in NY).
The issue of a private party transfer is murky and quite frankly, I don't know the answer. It seems to me that the problem would arise for the seller/transferor - not you, provided you left the firearm out-of-state.
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Any dealer, in all 50 states, can sell you a gun.......but he cannot, and will not deliver it to you.
He will gladly take your money, and then YOUR homestate FFL, must send, or now they can fax their FFL to the dealer you bought your gun from.
If your homestate FFL sees that you bought an AR15, he will probably just ship it back to the dealer he bought it from, or surrender it to an LEO, or destroy it, or sell it to an AW Dealer......
So yes, any dealer in any state can take your money, and tell you its completely legal......but in the end, you'll be out some $.......and nothing you can do about it.
A friend of mine fell for this when he was visiting me.........but all was not lost, and I was able to take it home, and just filled out the 4473 and kept them, and reimbursed my friend for them.
I, might want to check with the DOJ, but only pre-1898 (?), or some other fancy year guns can be bought, without a DROS.
For some reason, CA residents cannot buy long guns in any state..........though residents in free states, can buy long guns in any state of the Union......except states like CA, and other restictive states.
There's no legal way, as a resident of CA, that you can buy any long gun, or handgun....unless its on the approved DOJ list, antique, or a NON-AW.
If you do manage.....you more than likely will break GCA, and CA DOJ laws by doing so.
IMHO.....