You’re pretty spot on. He didn’t seem like the sharpest tool in the shed. I asked him that, if the dealer is willing to do the FFL isn’t that on them and he gave me an unsure and hesitant “no”. Who the f*** is going to know if my revolver had a 4.9 lb trigger pull or a 5.1 trigger pull at the time I bought it.
This isn't even about liability, likely that policy is rooted off the debacle a bounced transfer is likely to cause.
Example. Some guy buys a handgun, lets say an M&P 2.0 9mm. They call an MA FFL, MA FFL says "oh yawah weeuh will transfer that"
Someone f***s up and forgets to ask all the right question. (Is this compliant, is this the right SKU with f***ed trigger, 10 round mags, etc)
Gun gets sent down. Anal retentive MA FFL opens box and finds out its not one of the f***ing broken MA guns and is a normal one and didnt have crippled mags to boot.
MA FFL throws a shit fit "BWEAH THIS ISNT COMPLYANT BWEAH!!!! ZOMG WERE ALL GONNA DIE!"
Or lets say it was a revolver. MA FFL opens box and goes "BWEAH THIS IS A 625-3 not the one on DA ROSTAH WERE ALL GONNA DIE!" (or something else
stupid like that, its very easy for someone to drop vital info.
Either way, Entire transfer is bounced and is a shitshow. MA dealer has to ship it back (incurs costs, which KTP will eat more than likely, etc). So at the end of the
whole thing KTP burns an hour of staff time plus all that shipping money. All set on fire. To try to make like, 50 bucks on a handgun. Not worth it.
That's why foreign box stores usually don't send handguns into MA. That only has to happen like two or three times to make them just say "f*** it, don't even bother".
Then they would have to train sales people on something that likely accounts for less than 2% of their firearm sales anyways. KTP isnt going to get within a mile of a southern NH shop or
other discounter in MA anyways on a used handgun.
The whole exercise is a waste of time for them.
