The other day I overheard at a gun store a person who was talking about
transferring guns from a person who did not want to bother getting their
LTC after moving into the state.... the person said something like "Oh, just
take the guns and then register them with FA-10s". Presumably the
"buyer" has the appropriate license, but the seller does not.
My gut reaction was to say "That's not legal" but I just let them keep
blathering, as it really wasn't my conversation to intrude on, and the
guy parroting this advice did not strike me as a type of person who would be
overly receptive to being corrected.
My question is.... in that situation, -who- is violating the law/is legally
responsible?
-Is it the seller, because selling guns privately WITHOUT an LTC/FID
(whichever is needed) is verboten, because sellers must be licensed,
with the sole exception being an ESTATE transfer?
-Or is it both the seller AND the buyer, because the buyer is purchasing
the gun from someone not authorized to sell it?
I guess the question is, if these people were caught doing that (somehow, although
the mechanics of the discovery aren't really clear ) who
would be prosecuted (Buyer, Seller, both) and under what part of MGL
would they get hit with?
-Mike
transferring guns from a person who did not want to bother getting their
LTC after moving into the state.... the person said something like "Oh, just
take the guns and then register them with FA-10s". Presumably the
"buyer" has the appropriate license, but the seller does not.
My gut reaction was to say "That's not legal" but I just let them keep
blathering, as it really wasn't my conversation to intrude on, and the
guy parroting this advice did not strike me as a type of person who would be
overly receptive to being corrected.
My question is.... in that situation, -who- is violating the law/is legally
responsible?
-Is it the seller, because selling guns privately WITHOUT an LTC/FID
(whichever is needed) is verboten, because sellers must be licensed,
with the sole exception being an ESTATE transfer?
-Or is it both the seller AND the buyer, because the buyer is purchasing
the gun from someone not authorized to sell it?
I guess the question is, if these people were caught doing that (somehow, although
the mechanics of the discovery aren't really clear ) who
would be prosecuted (Buyer, Seller, both) and under what part of MGL
would they get hit with?
-Mike