Posted: 9/8/2006 1:12:16 PM EDT
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I've never heard of a limit on what an individual can purchase for their own use. It's when you buy with the intention of selling to others that you need a FFL. Interestingly, in Germany there is a limit on the number of guns a person can buy, and a cap, which I believe is 8, on the total someone can own. As is normally the case when the government gets involved and tries to change social behavior, a sly someone will find a way around the new regulation. In their case, the limit on guns is what motivated the invention of the Blaser R93, the gun with the interchangeable barrels, which allows one gun to be almost any caliber. If we had a gun purchase limit on Georgians, have no doubt someone here, just like in Germany, would figure out a way around it. |
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I know that it isn't a limit or anything, but it used to be (Current FFL's, please correct me if wrong) that if a person purchased 2 or more handguns from the same dealer within 5 or 7 days, a postcard had to be filled out by the dealer and mailed to ATF. This was to try to monitor if someone was re-selling them out of state or something. Like I said, this was back in 92-93 era, so it might be changed now. GlockSpeed31 |
You are correct, a form is to be filled out and either mailed or faxed (prefered) to the ATF. You can purchace all the long guns you can afford with only the 4473. Chris |
| I was just checking, I had gotten into a discussion and the question was brought up to me, and I was not sure. At some point does the ATF start to look a little closer at a person? I'm not sure on these and these were things that were brought up to me that "people" had heard or rumors of... You guys get the idea. |
how many can you shoot at once? 
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You would have to come to their attention somehow,by either buying multiple handguns from the same dealer in the five day period,or if your name came up in several crime gun traces. In the past (pre Clinton Admin),about the only way a FFL dealer ever got audited was if something brought them to the attention of the ATF,like crime gun traces. I'm not sure if those intances would get you a looking at,since the ATF and Mayor Bloomberg want to blame the dealer for other peoples illegal activities. I'd love to see his sting agents arrested and convicted since they did break the law knowingly,and the dealers may or may not have known what was going on. Mayor Bloomberg could even be charged with conspiracy to break Federal law,but I doubt any of them will ever face charges. |