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Scrivener said:"You can only SELL four a year using the FA-10. After you sell your four, you would need to do all transfers through an 01-FFL."
Not quite. After the four sales, any further sales in that calendar year would have to go through an FFL. Purchases are NOT limited, regardless of how many sales were made.
C-pher said:You can only SELL four a year using the FA-10. After you sell your four, you would need to do all transfers through an 01-FFL.
C-pher said:You can however, register as many firearms as you like using the FA-10. So if you wanted to BUY a gun a day from a private citizen who's never sold a gun, you can do that with the FA-10.
Scrivener said:Purchases are NOT limited.
If you give a gun away, it is a transfer. Neither falls under the 4 SALES per calendar year limit.
wherewolf said:If you give a gun away, it is a transfer. Neither falls under the 4 SALES per calendar year limit.
OK, and how would the state know whether it was sold or given as a gift?
Not that I would give any of my guns away.![]()
wpr2004 said:The State uses both od the following words:
sells transfers [cry]
The provisions of section one hundred and twenty-eight shall not apply to any resident of the commonwealth who, without being licensed as provided in section one hundred and twenty-two, sells or transfers to other than a federally licensed firearms dealer or organization named above not more than four firearms, including rifles and shotguns in any one calendar year; provided, however, that the seller has a firearm identification card or a license to carry firearms, is an exempt person under the conditions of clauses (n), (%96), (r) and (s) of the fourth paragraph of section one hundred and twenty-nine C, or is permitted to transfer ownership under the conditions of section one hundred and twenty-nine D and the purchaser has, in the case of sale or transfer of a firearm, a permit to purchase issued under the provisions of section one hundred and thirty-one A and a firearm identification card issued under section one hundred and twenty-nine B, or has such permit to purchase and is an exempt person under the provisions of section one hundred and twenty-nine C, or has been issued a license to carry firearms under the provisions of section one hundred and thirty, or in the case of sale or transfer of a rifle or shotgun, the purchaser has a firearm identification card or a license to carry firearms or is an exempt person as hereinbefore stated; and provided, further, that such resident reports within seven days, in writing to the executive director of the criminal history systems board on forms furnished by said executive director, the names and addresses of the seller and the purchaser of any such large capacity feeding device, firearm, rifle or shotgun, together with a complete description of the firearm, rifle or shotgun,