Is there any way to do this without going through FFLs? I'm in a different state. She's 18. Can I mail it to her or just visit and hand it over.  Never lived in Virginia, not up on the laws.

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You can gift it as long as you are both residents of VA.

My understanding is that if the current owner is in one state and the new owner is in another state, federal law states handguns have to go through a FFL.

TRANSFERS OF FIREARMS BY
PRIVATE SELLERS  

 An unlicensed individual may transfer a firearm to another unlicensed individual residing in the same State, provided that he or she has no reason to believe the buyer is prohibited by law from possessing firearms.

For a list of categories prohibiting a person
from possessing a firearm, please refer to 18
U.S.C. 922(g) and (n).  

 An unlicensed individual is prohibited from directly transferring a firearm to a person residing in another State.
Regardless of the purpose of the transfer (e.g. gift, trade, loan, sale, ownership, etc.), this restriction applies to all types of firearms.  

An unlicensed individual may complete a transfer to an out-of-State person through the following procedure:  
• The unlicensed individual transfers
the firearm to a Federal Firearms
Licensee (FFL) located in the State of
the person receiving the firearm.

• The FFL will transfer the firearm to
the unlicensed out-of-State person.  

• The FFL will be responsible for
lawfully transferring the firearm.

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With our UBC, I am not sure if a FFL will transfer a handgun to a 18 year old. There has been debate here in the state between gun rights groups and the state govt. and I do not know the current status of that debate. You may want to research this or maybe someone with more info then I have will chime in and clarify. I would not want you to send it to a FFL here and not have her be able to get it from the FFL.

Does that also apply to private sales now that they have to go through a FFL?

If i wanted to sell a handgun to my buddies kid who is 18, will bringing the FFL into it due to the UBC cause an issue? Before UBC, I could just sell it to him since the only hang up was that an FFL could not sell to under 21 but, private sales were fine.

I am not looking to due this, just trying to get clarification for my own knowledge and used "my buddies kid" as a scenario.

eta: in my factious scenario all parties are residents of Va.

My read is that it would, if going through an FFL.  

Before the VA law changed, 18 would have been fine for a private party pistol sale between state residents, but now that VA law requires a background check even for private party sales and that check will almost always will be performed by an FFL, you are stuck at 21 due to federal law.  I say almost always because you can still use VSP at some gun shows to do a transfer, and they aren't an FFL, so 18 should be fine there.  I think.

But IANAL.

That is what i was thinking also. I was hoping at some point HansohnBrothers would put there 2 cents in since they are a FFL. Maybe they know something I don't.

I was also hoping they would call me and tell me my stamp is in.  

They don't call you when you stamp comes in, they email you I got my email last month and scheduled my pick up for a few days later. I have not had a chance to take my sbs out yet.

Does your daughter already have a glock of some type that she is comfortable with?

No. She enjoys shooting but isn't necessarily interested in firearms. She just puts up with it because dad likes guns and wants the Bauer because it's "cool looking". I still have to order a pin and possibly a new extractor, I blew the last one out. Currently it's rigged with a roll pin. She is a natural. Her first group with a rifle at 100 yards, Daewoo rifle, when she was 9.

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Thanks for the feedback fellas, I got my answer.

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