Private sale to a non-PA resident

**Karl der Grosse** · November 13th, 2009, 11:08 AM

How does this work, legally of course?

**gnbrotz** · November 13th, 2009, 11:10 AM

What type of firearm?

**Thinkingguns** · November 13th, 2009, 11:29 AM

To a non pa resident i would think you need to go through an FFL no matter if its a long gun or a hand gun. with a long gun you can go through a Pa FFL and do the transfer in state. with a Hand gun you must have the FFL in the non resident's state handle the transfer. In both cases a PICS/NICS check must be accomplished.

**fingers80002** · November 13th, 2009, 11:29 AM

Originally Posted by Karl der Grosse

How does this work, legally of course?

It involves an FFL........

**Karl der Grosse** · November 13th, 2009, 12:43 PM

Originally Posted by gnbrotz

What type of firearm?

Just a general question - handgun or longarm.

**Thinkingguns** · November 13th, 2009, 12:50 PM

Originally Posted by Karl der Grosse

Just a general question - handgun or longarm.

I hope my post # 3 was helpful.

**Xringshooter** · November 13th, 2009, 01:32 PM

Originally Posted by Thinkingguns

To a non pa resident i would think you need to go through an FFL no matter if its a long gun or a hand gun. with a long gun you can go through a Pa FFL and do the transfer in state. with a Hand gun you must have the FFL in the non resident's state handle the transfer. In both cases a PICS/NICS check must be accomplished.

This is basically correct. To add, the long arm (or the handgun) the non-resident is buying must be legal/permitted in the state where they reside. As said, a non resident can buy the handgun from the PA resident, but it then has to be shipped to a FFL in the non-residents state to do the actual transfer. If the FFL in the non-resident state will not accept a shipment from a non-FFL, then the gun will need to go from a PA FFL to the out of state FFL.

All of this is moot if the buyer is a FFL (other than the gun must still be permitted into the other state).