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There's $15 transfer fee, cash, - the cheapest in the area - but they don't accept transfers from individuals.
Since the 7 day waiting period came into effect, they started charging an extra $10 for storage. They waive the $10 fee, cash and carry, if you have a CC permit.
Pawnshops are usually the cheapest for transfers.
Since the 7 day waiting period came into effect, they started charging an extra $10 for storage. They waive the $10 fee, cash and carry, if you have a CC permit.
Pawnshops are usually the cheapest for transfers.
In my area brick and motor stores give you the stink eye if you ask them to receive and transfer a new gun. They obviously want you to buy it from them. A home based guy has to charge for his time. He has to be available 3 different times to complete transaction on a handgun. 1 take delivery. 2 buyer does paperwork and background check. 3 buyer picks up gun after going to pistol permit dept to add it to his permit. Also the background checks no go through NY who naturally charges the FFL $9 for something that used to be free. Long guns skip step 3. Ammo is like long gun. Only background check for ammo is $2.50…….. all this assumes background checks response is "proceed". Often the response is "delayed". This requires FFL to avail himself again when it does go through. Makes you wonder why anyone want to be an FFL in NY
I have a nice little Hardware store that still charges $20.
She does everything Electronic if i but one on a Forum i just include her on a Email and calls me when it is in to pick it up.
She does everything Electronic if i but one on a Forum i just include her on a Email and calls me when it is in to pick it up.
I wish transfer fees were $50.
Here in California my lgs is $85. Plus you're paying an 11% tax on guns even when bought out of state like on gunbroker. The only way to get around the 11% tax is to do a ppt. Also you must pay $37 DROS fee aswell. Because of all these taxes and extra fees I can not bid competitively on online auctions for guns especially lower priced guns.
I would live elsewhere if I could but a huge portion of jobs in my field are located in California so I don't really have much of a choice.
Here in California my lgs is $85. Plus you're paying an 11% tax on guns even when bought out of state like on gunbroker. The only way to get around the 11% tax is to do a ppt. Also you must pay $37 DROS fee aswell. Because of all these taxes and extra fees I can not bid competitively on online auctions for guns especially lower priced guns.
I would live elsewhere if I could but a huge portion of jobs in my field are located in California so I don't really have much of a choice.
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I guess my goto guy does it because he must be making enough money as a side business. Of course, with inflation that's why he raised the price to $75.
Also, he won't do a transfer for a new gun. He has a catalog issued by his distributor and it covers most everything on the market today. Then, the $75 fee is waived.
Personally, I have never been delayed. But then again I don't have a common name. This new ammo NICS check is a joke. I was at Cabelas the other day and a guy got "delayed. I believe his name was Jones. I imagine there are bazillion criminals names Jones. When he took his coat off and revealed he was a local police officer everyone there laughed.
I'm sticking to C&Rs. My FFL will cover that, no problem.
LVSteve
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I don't need any gun enough to pay a $75 transfer fee to any FFL. I have a two local places, one is $20 (irregular hours), and the other $25 (normal store).
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When the only guy left in town charges 75, you will either pay it or go without. Its an easy choice.
StrawHat
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This is the key.
Everytime you buy something on line or from the big box store that you could have bought from the LGS you are just helping edge them closer to closing.
Support your LGS or don't complain when they close. In my area, four Mom and Pop gun stores closed this past year. I believe there is now only one gunshop in Mentor and one in Geneva. It is too bad, they had a lot of interesting things besides the plastic stuff.
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In WA State
I am in WA state in the top liberal and anti-gun King County and now I am paying for a handgun transfer at one of the best FFLs in this area $35 for the actual transfer plus $18 for the WA State Patrol mandated background check, total $53. Used to pay $25 for NICS few years back and heard then of FFLs around here doing them at $10 or even for free. Most if not all those FFLs are now gone.
NICS used to be instant. Now, a background check is often a month long wait affair around here now, with 10 business days wait that start the next business day after paperwork and counted to up to next business day after the 10 passed, and that's the best case when a 'proceed' arrives on time. And still, the worst is yet to come. My beautiful state goes toward total disarmament, of the law-abiding population that is.
I am in WA state in the top liberal and anti-gun King County and now I am paying for a handgun transfer at one of the best FFLs in this area $35 for the actual transfer plus $18 for the WA State Patrol mandated background check, total $53. Used to pay $25 for NICS few years back and heard then of FFLs around here doing them at $10 or even for free. Most if not all those FFLs are now gone.
NICS used to be instant. Now, a background check is often a month long wait affair around here now, with 10 business days wait that start the next business day after paperwork and counted to up to next business day after the 10 passed, and that's the best case when a 'proceed' arrives on time. And still, the worst is yet to come. My beautiful state goes toward total disarmament, of the law-abiding population that is.
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People want to bypass a LGS, buy from discounters who the LGS cannot match, and then want the FFL to work for nothing?
Bought a 27-2 from an auction back east...got it very cheap...165 dollars plus 10%. The dealer that did the transfers for the auction house charged me 85 dollars and sales tax in his state to ship to my FFL here in Wyoming. My FFL charged me 10 dollars...then gave it back because I told him about the auction in which he bought 8 guns. For very good prices. I complained to the auction house about the fee and that he charged me state sales tax. He sent me the tax back...and he is no longer the dealer they use for their auctions...evidently I was not the only complainee..He was pocketing the sales tax for firearms sold out of state
There are gun shops in Painesville and Fairport Harbor.
charlie sherrill
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My FFL charges me zero for transfer fees. I've got a C&R for the older stuff. The reason he charges me nothing is I often find good deals on multiple guns. I get the one or two I want and he gets whatever he wants after I get mine. Works good for both of us.
Yendor357
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You got into the gun buying hobby thinking you were going to save money?
Support your local family owned businesses. They're worth 100X any Bass Pro or Wal-Mart. I've found that the extra $10 I spent at the local small gun shop is well worth it in the long run.
Buying/owning a gun is a 2 step process. (1) You pay for it. (2) You do the transfer.
If you're buying things that go up in value, you can buy all you want.
Support your local family owned businesses. They're worth 100X any Bass Pro or Wal-Mart. I've found that the extra $10 I spent at the local small gun shop is well worth it in the long run.
Buying/owning a gun is a 2 step process. (1) You pay for it. (2) You do the transfer.
If you're buying things that go up in value, you can buy all you want.
LVSteve
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You have to do a background check with a concealed permit? Bag that noise.
LVSteve
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Call me ornery, but I would sooner spend $50 out of that $75 driving to another city for a $25 transfer fee than pay $75 to the guy bending me over. At least I get a day out.
About ten years ago I was about to do all my transfers 70 miles away in Pahrump because the major FFLs in Vegas clearly started a cartel thing on transfers. How could this pay, you ask. I can make the trip to Pahrump and back on about 3 gallons of diesel in my BMW sedan, call it $12 at most. A few new, small stores have since opened up with sensible fees, so now almost nobody I know does transfers at the larger, non-chain, stores.
Erich
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My friendly local FFL a mile south of me here in the Duke City still runs $30 - $25 for LEO/former LEOs (he tries to let me pay the lower rate b/c I was a prosecutor a hundred years ago, but I always give him full fare).
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My shooting range/gun shop charges me $25 for a transfer fee if you are a member or frequent shooter, You also get a 10% off all transactions if you are a vet. Its a veteran owned and operated facility. I'm out there 2-3xs a month, sometimes just to shoot the breeze with the guys.
My shooting range/gun shop charges me $25 for a transfer fee if you are a member or frequent shooter, You also get a 10% off all transactions if you are a vet. Its a veteran owned and operated facility. I'm out there 2-3xs a month, sometimes just to shoot the breeze with the guys.
Maybe Trump can get GCA'68 repealed and we can stop all this nonsense. FedEx* can bring it to my door and I'll sign for it.
[Not USPS. They are known to steal guns here. Now. My FFL says TELL SELLER NOT TO USE USPS FOR DELIVERY!!!!]
[Not USPS. They are known to steal guns here. Now. My FFL says TELL SELLER NOT TO USE USPS FOR DELIVERY!!!!]
I have to ask if there is any cost today to the FFL for conducting the check? NICS used to be free so anyone charging $50 or more seems way to high. Just the time for the employee which should be no more than 10 minutes work. That would equate to $300/hour! So what's in your wallet? I never leave home without my C&R FFL.
18 dollar background check
50 dollar transfer fee
10% sales tax
3% credit card fee
10 day waiting regardless of CPL
Shipping.
One might think they're trying to price guns out of existence.
50 dollar transfer fee
10% sales tax
3% credit card fee
10 day waiting regardless of CPL
Shipping.
One might think they're trying to price guns out of existence.
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Fishinfool
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$25 seems to be the going rate at shops around me here in central PA, though there is one shop that does it for $10, and he is always busy, probably makes up for it in volume, and guys buying stuff while they are in the shop waiting. Going to need ammo, a holster, sling, scope, case for that new beauty..
Larry
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My FFL guy and friend of 30 years charges $35 for handguns and $45 for long guns. He'll often tell me not to worry about it but I refuse to Not pay him. It's his license & his time. He's a kitchen table FFL who is just about fed up with NY's draconian gun control laws. He will be 77 this year and Unfortunately for me he probably isn't going to renew his FFL license when it expires next year.
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