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Do the right thing.
It seems there is a lot of support among gun owners for background checks on private sales, at least in Tennessee.
Store will do gun transfers for free
http://www.knoxnews.com/business/store-will-do-gun-transfers-for-free_73072735
There may be few restrictions on firearms sales between individuals, but the proprietor of a Kingston gun store said he still gets customers who want to make sure the guns they are selling do not get into the wrong hands.
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"I've had a lot of people coming in wanting to sell me a firearm and I'll tell them, ‘You could probably get more money for it if you sold it yourself,' but they want to make sure they sell the gun legally," he said.
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To do a private transaction, the buyer and seller bring the firearm to Frontier, where the store does a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation background check on the buyer. The firearm is recorded in the store's acquisition and disposition book.
"That breaks the chain of ownership for the seller and moves it to me," Williams said. "It relieves the seller of any culpability in selling the gun."
http://www.knoxnews.com/business/store-will-do-gun-transfers-for-free_73072735
There may be few restrictions on firearms sales between individuals, but the proprietor of a Kingston gun store said he still gets customers who want to make sure the guns they are selling do not get into the wrong hands.
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"I've had a lot of people coming in wanting to sell me a firearm and I'll tell them, ‘You could probably get more money for it if you sold it yourself,' but they want to make sure they sell the gun legally," he said.
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To do a private transaction, the buyer and seller bring the firearm to Frontier, where the store does a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation background check on the buyer. The firearm is recorded in the store's acquisition and disposition book.
"That breaks the chain of ownership for the seller and moves it to me," Williams said. "It relieves the seller of any culpability in selling the gun."
Tennessee has a state charge of $10 to any gun store for the state background check. Most gun stores will do a private transfer for an additional $25 fee. Since the demand has become so high for private sales checks a number of stores are waiving the store's transfer fee. Good to see so many gun owners wanting to do the right thing and RESPONSIBLE gun dealers helping out.
I've said in other threads that no dealer is required to sell a gun to anyone even if they pass the NICS check and many RESPONSIBLE dealers turn sales away if they don't feel comfortable with the buyer. Some not so much, like the Kansas store that sold a shotgun to the mother of a convicted felon even though he picked out the gun and left the store. Later that day he used the shot gun to kill his 8 year old son and himself. It took ten years and the Kansas Supreme Court to rule that the store owners knew or should have known that it was a straw purchase.
According to the Brady organization only 5% of gun dealers provide the vast majority of crime guns in the US. How hard can it be to force that small number to just do the right thing?
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