Sorry if this has been asked before, I've been searching google and forums all day and there doesn't seem to be a really clear cut answer:
I'm a California resident. My friend and roommate is from Nevada and maintains residency there while attending school at Davis.
I visited him a few weeks ago and we went to Cabela's, and they had a few rifles and shotguns for good prices that I wanted to buy. When I asked the clerk, he said "You're a CA resident? Sorry about that, but we don't even mess with out of state transfers, it's just not worth the money, especially with your [deleted] state".
So my question is...can I buy Nevada guns by going through the following? I don't want to do anything illegal, am not asking about anything illegal, etc, I have just spend >1 hour trying to get a definite answer and finding nothing.
Can my friend buy a gun in Nevada (a gun which would be legal in CA), his state of residency, take delivery of the gun (they have no wait on long guns), and drive back to CA with me and transfer it to me via an FFL? As far as I can tell, this isn't a straw purchase because a) I am legally allowed to own the gun and b) the gun is legal in CA (ie - no >10rd magazines, no assualt rifle, etc) and c) ownership is being legally transferred to me.
Do we even need an FFL to do the transfer on a long gun? Google brought up info on lots of other states where you can just do a face-to-face transfer of long guns, but they were almost always states much friendlier to guns than mine. If you do a face to face cash transfer, what forms do you need to file to indicate the change of ownership, if any?
Also, does the waiting period still apply if it has to go through an FLL (ie - do my friend and I do the paperwork and then the gun stays with the dealer for the requisite ten days in CA).
Thanks in advance for any help, I just cannot seem to find anything definite about this online and would rather not assume that online advice I found for KY is valid in CA and get in trouble with the BATF. Since my two best friends up here are from NV and AZ...I wind up drooling over stuff in gun shops there a lot with no clue if I could own it.
I'm a California resident. My friend and roommate is from Nevada and maintains residency there while attending school at Davis.
I visited him a few weeks ago and we went to Cabela's, and they had a few rifles and shotguns for good prices that I wanted to buy. When I asked the clerk, he said "You're a CA resident? Sorry about that, but we don't even mess with out of state transfers, it's just not worth the money, especially with your [deleted] state".
So my question is...can I buy Nevada guns by going through the following? I don't want to do anything illegal, am not asking about anything illegal, etc, I have just spend >1 hour trying to get a definite answer and finding nothing.
Can my friend buy a gun in Nevada (a gun which would be legal in CA), his state of residency, take delivery of the gun (they have no wait on long guns), and drive back to CA with me and transfer it to me via an FFL? As far as I can tell, this isn't a straw purchase because a) I am legally allowed to own the gun and b) the gun is legal in CA (ie - no >10rd magazines, no assualt rifle, etc) and c) ownership is being legally transferred to me.
Do we even need an FFL to do the transfer on a long gun? Google brought up info on lots of other states where you can just do a face-to-face transfer of long guns, but they were almost always states much friendlier to guns than mine. If you do a face to face cash transfer, what forms do you need to file to indicate the change of ownership, if any?
Also, does the waiting period still apply if it has to go through an FLL (ie - do my friend and I do the paperwork and then the gun stays with the dealer for the requisite ten days in CA).
Thanks in advance for any help, I just cannot seem to find anything definite about this online and would rather not assume that online advice I found for KY is valid in CA and get in trouble with the BATF. Since my two best friends up here are from NV and AZ...I wind up drooling over stuff in gun shops there a lot with no clue if I could own it.