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minus-squarechiliedogg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·2 days agoYou know that, even in the US, you can’t just sell a gun online and ship it to their house, right? In fact, someone without a federal firearms dealer’s license can’t transfer a handgun to ANYONE who lives in a different state at all.
minus-squarepinkystew@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 days agoOh. In that case I’ll give it to my son and tell him on Christmas day that his uncle killed himself with it.
minus-squareJumuta@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 days ago“santa killed your uncle with it to make sure it works”
minus-squareArbiter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoYou can sell a gun online, the transfer just has to go through an FFL holder who will run required background checks.
minus-squareDogWater@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoYee Yee that’s what they mean by not able to ship it to their house
minus-squarevaultdweller013@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 days agoI think you could, black powder weapons are regulated weirdly. But yeah anything that uses modern powder would need to be sold to a gun shop.
minus-squaremodus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoSilencerco took advantage of this once and made the Maxim 50. I don’t think many people bought it, but it was made just to utilize that loophole.
minus-squarechiliedogg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoBlack powder weapons aren’t legally firearms, yeah.
You know that, even in the US, you can’t just sell a gun online and ship it to their house, right?
In fact, someone without a federal firearms dealer’s license can’t transfer a handgun to ANYONE who lives in a different state at all.
Oh. In that case I’ll give it to my son and tell him on Christmas day that his uncle killed himself with it.
“santa killed your uncle with it to make sure it works”
You can sell a gun online, the transfer just has to go through an FFL holder who will run required background checks.
Yee Yee that’s what they mean by not able to ship it to their house
I think you could, black powder weapons are regulated weirdly. But yeah anything that uses modern powder would need to be sold to a gun shop.
Silencerco took advantage of this once and made the Maxim 50. I don’t think many people bought it, but it was made just to utilize that loophole.
Black powder weapons aren’t legally firearms, yeah.