Have you purchased another handgun in the last 5 days

[knight0334]

As others have mentioned, this is nothing new. The dealer has to fill out a multi-purchase form if two or more handgun purchases are made at that dealer within 5 business days. A copy is sent to the ATF and a copy is sent to the local CLEO.

See pdf form here --> http://www.atf.gov/forms/download/atf-f-3310-4.pdf

[c45man]

As others have mentioned, this is nothing new. The dealer has to fill out a multi-purchase form if two or more handgun purchases are made at that dealer within 5 business days. A copy is sent to the ATF and a copy is sent to the local CLEO.

See pdf form here --> http://www.atf.gov/forms/download/atf-f-3310-4.pdf

Another useless federal law that went into effect in the seventies. As the reference government form indicates, it has been revised a few times. Especially the part referencing gun shows. Before 1986, a delivery of a modern firearm could only occur at the address listed on the FFL selling the gun.

[GeneCC]

I buy handguns for specific reasons, one at at time. I've never seen this sort of thing but I've heard that it's an old law.

Obama did talk about such a law for "assault weapons" when the "Fast and Furious" project came to light. Probably what he wanted to do was to propose such a "new regulation" once F&F reached its normal conclusion. He would talk about "assault weapons being sent to mexico, killling mexican kids, and so on". Then he would propose this crap as a "solution".

Being a simple minded "Community Organizer" who got caught breaking the law he went ahead and floated the proposal, which just pissed people off even more.

[johnfritz]

This is old and has been the law for more than a decade.

When you buy multiple handguns in either a single day or within a 5 day period, ATF requires the dealer to fill out a multiple handgun purchase form. It's been awhile, but if I remember right a copy of this form is faxed to ATF.

This. When I replaced a bunch of stolen firearms and I waited to pick up several of them at one time from the FFL, I leaned about this law.

[father-of-five]

Ive never had an issue, never had a problem buying multiple guns at the same time...no extra money required on the buyers part

I have only been in single purchase situations, so I didn't know if the extra paperwork kind of canceled out the extra profit made by the dealer.

[ScotsGuards]

I have only been in single purchase situations, so I didn't know if the extra paperwork kind of canceled out the extra profit made by the dealer.

It's one extra form to fill out and send. It's not a big deal. I've sent in dozens of them and never once got a call back from the National Tracing Center. Except when I forgot to fill in something such as a SN, etc.

[johnfritz]

... I didn't know if the extra paperwork kind of canceled out the extra profit made by the dealer.

The guys who did my paperwork weren't too thrilled about it. At all.