Styx
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No, I'm saying many people do not buy online, and know nothing about it. I go to Bass Pro Shop, LGS, and other big box stores in the area, and they're selling guns for $100-$150 more than they can be purchased for online, and these stores are usually packed. I see people actually paying these prices with tax on top. So yes, I believe that when these people see a used guns selling for $100 below what they seen them for at a LGS, they think it's a good deal not knowing that they can get the same gun for the same price new online.Are people selling them for those prices, or just listing them for those prices? On our local (statewide) site, there's no transaction recorded online. Typically, the listing might generate a PM exchange between the seller and one or more prospective buyers, and then a follow-up posting listing the item as sold. Does ArmsList work that way?
If people are paying the same price for a private FTF transaction for a gun used as one bought new online, it suggests they are paying extra for not going through the 4473 process. There are flatly illegal reasons for wanting to do this (can't pass a BGC), and not-illegal reasons (want to have one or more firearms that cannot be located through paperwork).
Plus, I've personally sold off my used, carried, fired guns for the same price I've purchased them online in a F2F sale. I require a carry permit, voter ID, or military ID card, BOS, and a carry license when I sell.
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