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Thread: Home based FFL's opinions
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July 19th, 2017, 07:19 AM #1
Home based FFL's opinions
Just a quick post before work looking for some thoughts from you home based FFL's.
My former business partner who I have been still working with for years is calling it quits due to health reasons.
I have decided that due to the lack of a place to even get transfers done locally I am going to get my own FFL again after an almost 20 year lapse.
My questions to you guys who have gotten yours recently is where do you base your business out of?
My home is a small coal mining town house.
I do have a small "computer" room that I could use for an office but that would require people coming through my kitchen and such, something I don't want to do.
Do any of you guys use your garage or other outbuilding and if so I suppose the ATF agent that came out had no problems with this?
I plan on doing mostly internet sales and transfers.
I know the ATF wants regular hours, or do they? I plan on keeping my job for now due to the health insurance and doing this in the evenings and weekends, did anyone have a problem with this?
I do have a line on 150+ surplus guns I have been offered as well as possibly picking up some of the inventory of my buddy.
I will also be able to get his twice a year gun raffles.
I know some of the larger wholesalers won't deal with "kitchen table" dealers, but if I go with a garage based space do any of you guys have a positive experience with getting these places to deal with you.
I have a list of smaller or willing wholesalers already as well as contacts for used guns, I'd just like to be able to get in on the ammo deals that places offer when they do their trade shows.
I know this is a jumble of questions.
I plan on doing this, the first thing is getting my home equity loan wrapped up, so I'm just picking brains right now.
Useful advice is welcome, I'm mainly concerned about the "office" requirement if any.
If you guys don't want to post out in the open, a PM is fine as well.
I'm not asking for your business contacts and such, just general thoughts.
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July 19th, 2017, 07:43 AM #2
Re: Home based FFL's opinions
Of the two home based FFLs I spend time at, one is using the corner of the garage attached to his house and the other is using a room in his basement that has ground level access at the back.
In America arms are free merchandise such that anyone who has the capital may make their houses into armories and their gardens into parks of artillery. - Ira Allen, 1796
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July 19th, 2017, 09:17 AM #3
Re: Home based FFL's opinions
Last edited by ExFlyinguy; July 19th, 2017 at 09:28 AM.
"It seems that the Constitution is more or less guidelines than actual rules"
My feedback: http://forum.pafoa.org/showthread.php?t=305685
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July 19th, 2017, 10:03 AM #4
Re: Home based FFL's opinions
Make sure you check your local ordinances to make sure you are allowed to do this and get any permits that are required. Don't forget you have to get the PA License to Sell Firearms from the county sheriff (IIRC $57 for 3 years) Getting that is what gets you into the PICS system with the PSP
Ron USAF Ret E-8 FFL01/SOT3 NRA Benefactor Member
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July 19th, 2017, 10:08 AM #5
Re: Home based FFL's opinions
"It seems that the Constitution is more or less guidelines than actual rules"
My feedback: http://forum.pafoa.org/showthread.php?t=305685
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July 19th, 2017, 01:22 PM #6
Re: Home based FFL's opinions
Zoning gets more people than anything.
I still had to jump through township hoops and a zoning hearing board meeting and pay $300 hearing fee to be an FFL manufacture...in a building that i have been zoned to manufacturing things in since 1988....anyhow
I run mine out of my office at my woodshop since im there 10-12 hr a day anyway, and i dont want people coming to my home.
Zanders told me to pound sand.
RSR, Lipsey's, Chattanooga, Grice's work with me with out question.HGW, llc ~ Title 1 & NFA sales/manufacturing ~ Transfers - Title 1 $20 - NFA $50
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July 19th, 2017, 01:31 PM #7
Re: Home based FFL's opinions
Thanks guys.
I figured the internet chatter about licenses being rejected due to not having a "business location" were overblown.
We have no zoning and there was an ordinance passed a couple years back that expressly allows home based businesses as long as there is not a traffic issue.
Hmmm, secure storage area?
I did plan on making a storage room and will be adding to my home security system so I should have that covered.
It's odd that the guy that is closing up just has crap piled in corners and has been doing that for two decades.
Again, thanks.
One more thing, anyone using the internet based 4473 with the signature thingy?
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July 19th, 2017, 03:03 PM #8
Re: Home based FFL's opinions
Nope, buyer fills out a 4473 and if need be a State handgun form.
You review them and punch in DL #, select paper form, type in a few bits of info and hit submit. Then wait for the results.
Once you have those, print out the result page, sign & date the forms, give the new owner their copy of the State form and you're done.
The nice thing is the multiple person application, you can just keep adding new applicants as you are waiting on the first ones.
I thought about doing the electronic signature pad, but i just never got around to buying one.
One thing to keep in mind is keeping your personal items separate from your business items, and business items properly tagged.
But this isnt your first rodeo.HGW, llc ~ Title 1 & NFA sales/manufacturing ~ Transfers - Title 1 $20 - NFA $50
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July 19th, 2017, 03:23 PM #9
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