Firearms transfer in PA

**wgl4034** · December 10th, 2012, 06:45 PM

Can long guns be legally sold FTF between individuals in PA without going through a FFL dealer/paperwork, etc? Thanks.

**knight0334** · December 10th, 2012, 06:50 PM

Yes so long as both are PA residents and neither are prohibited persons.

Long guns aren't "firearms" in PA - except they are when it is relevant to prohibited persons.

**QuackXP** · December 11th, 2012, 04:29 PM

As Knight already posted it is legal as long as both buyer and seller are PA residents and are not prohibited.

But a transfer does buy you the piece of mind that the buyer is in fact not prohibited and reduces your risk if the firearm ends up involved in a crime.

**GunLawyer001** · December 11th, 2012, 05:03 PM

Originally Posted by QuackXP

As Knight already posted it is legal as long as both buyer and seller are PA residents and are not prohibited.

But a transfer does buy you the piece of mind that the buyer is in fact not prohibited and reduces your risk if the firearm ends up involved in a crime.

True, using an FFL reduces your risk to effectively zero; compliance with the UFA immunizes the seller (in the absence of some sort of conspiracy, for example, to sell a non-prohibited guy a gun so that he can shoot his wife.)