Posted: 4/16/2011 6:27:11 AM EDT
| Does anyone know if it's illegal for pawn shops or antique stores in WI to sell handguns? I'm looking for a beater revolver to use as a project gun. I'm obviously not going to find something like that in any retailer like Gander. I guess I'm really looking for other options in S Wisconsin. |
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Does anyone know if it's illegal for pawn shops or antique stores in WI to sell handguns? I'm looking for a beater revolver to use as a project gun. I'm obviously not going to find something like that in any retailer like Gander. I guess I'm really looking for other options in S Wisconsin. Any store can sell handguns so long as they have the proper valid FFL. If your question is if they can sell a modern handgun without an FFL, then the answer is NO.... It does not matter if it is a "beater", parts gun or otherwise. The only way someone can be in the business of selling firearms without an FFL is if the firearm is classified by Federal code as an "Antique".. As defined in 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(16) the term “antique firearm” means —
… A.any firearm (including any firearm with a matchlock, flintlock, percussion cap, or similar type of ignition system) manufactured in or before 1898; or B.any replica of any firearm described in subparagraph (A) if such replica — i.is not designed or redesigned for using rimfire or conventional centerfire fixed ammunition, or ii.uses rimfire or conventional centerfire fixed ammunition which is no longer manufactured in the United States and which is not readily available in the ordinary channels of commercial trade; or C.any muzzle loading rifle, muzzle loading shotgun, or muzzle loading pistol, which is designed to use black powder, or a black powder substitute, and which cannot use fixed ammunition. For purposes of this subparagraph, the term ‘antique firearm’ shall not include any weapon which incorporates a firearm frame or receiver, any firearm which is converted into a muzzle loading weapon, or any muzzle loading weapon, which can be readily converted to fire fixed ammunition by replacing the barrel, bolt, breechblock, or any combination thereof. |
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Are these any pawn stores that sell guns in SE WI? Very few if any pawn shops in SE WI have FFL's. Most of them are in Milwaukee, and Milwaukee actively works to run FFL's out of the city. Few of them are nice otherwise either. 
The pawn shops that are FFL's that I'm aware of are all in the north and west of the state. If there's one in the extended Milwaukee Metro I want to know about it. |