Instacheck for a rifle?

[Moparmike]

Ok, being a complete noob to the purchasing of firearms, is it normal for the shop to call the Fubar'ed Bumbling Idiots for a simple Czech Mauser?

I was a little skeptical, even though I am as innocent as a newborn puppy (as far as the law goes ). I am uncomfortable with it being on paper that a gun resides at my house in someone's records besides the gun shop, and I find it a little unsettling even then.

Am I just paranoid, or what?

 

[Hkmp5sd]

Yep. All firearm transfers through an FFL require the instant check.

 

[Standing Wolf]

Yeah, but it's not firearms registration, which is why the federales need to know the make, model, and serial number of your new firearm. </sarcasm>

 

[brownie0486]

Yup, that the way it is.

5 m1a's last year and all instachecked before I could walk out of the shop.

Whats nice is at least you know they don't have any records that are wrong in their databases about you and a record of any kind. Many have been denied wrongfully and would have never known the problem otherwise.

Brownie

 

[Intune]

Did you order it in from another store or was it there on shelf?

 

[Moparmike]

Shelf.

 

[Intune]

I'm going to start doing all my transactions face to face in a parking lot. It's not like I'm paranoid about the gov, I just don't trust them!

Serial sniper using .223 and they just happen to come knock on everybody's door in the area that owns the platform? Yeah, ok.

 

[Ian]

Not only is it required on all transactions made through FFLs, the "insta-check" may not be all that "insta." Lately, we've been having checks take upwards of an hour at the shop I'm hanging out at this summer.

 

[stevelyn]

BUT..................If you have a CHL you get to bypass the NICS check.

 

[blue86buick]

or in my state (iowa), a permit to acquire pistols and revolvers! (assuming you aren't "special enough" that the sherrif will let you have a CHL/CCW )

 

[nemesis]

Yep. All firearm transfers through an FFL require the instant check.

Not only is it required on all transactions made through FFLs, the "insta-check" may not be all that "insta."

Nope. I ain't done that in years. I just fill out the ATF form, pay and walk out.

 

[Hkmp5sd]

Nope. I ain't done that in years. I just fill out the ATF form, pay and walk out.

Only because you are complying with one of three exemptions to the NICS background check. The two common exemptions are you possess a state permit that ATF will accept as an alternative or the transfer of a NFA firearm.

For everyone else, ALL firearms transferred to a non-licensee by an FFL MUST comply with the NICS instant background check.

An amusing non-exemtion is the C&R (03) FFL holder. He is exempt when acquiring C&R firearms, but must meet the requirements for modern firearm transfers.

 

[Moparmike]

BUT..................If you have a CHL you get to bypass the NICS check.

That is also assuming that one is old enough for a CHL/CCW. Only 354 more days for me...