A private seller cannot legally vet a person to the extent that a FFL (Federal Fireams Licensee) dealer can. You can't just call up the NICS database hotline and request a check. Best you can do, as a private seller, is to follow the laws of the state you are in. I'm in AZ and our laws state that you cannot sell to a "known" prohibited possessor. To the extent you can check, you can look at their drivers license to ensure they are a resident (illegals cannot get a DL in AZ), and / or you can ask to see a current Concealed Carry Permit. By doing that you are adhering to the law as written. Obviously, if someone shows up in a low rider all tatt'ed up with his pants around his knees and can't speak english, you'd probably want to walk away...
If you still aren't comfortable with that, you can put your firearms up for sale with a FFL on consignment or just sell them outright to the FFL and they will sell them after that. Jeff -------- Original Message -------- > From: "Maureen" <mamamaur...@gmail.com> > Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 1:26 PM > To: "cf-community" <cf-community@houseoffusion.com> > Subject: Re: I am not for much gun control, but this sucks... > > Yeah, but is a private seller required to vet the purchaser through the > court, because even if the seller had asked the purchaser if he was legally > able to purchase, the guy would probably have lied. > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson <jmi...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > except in this case, the courts HAD been involved, and he was legally > > forbidden to own or purchase a gun. > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:356439 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
