dogtown tom said:
If you do "while you wait" repairs to a firearm (meaning you NEVER take possession) no FFL is needed. You see this a lot at gun shows where a guy will install nightsights while you are standing there.
If customers drop off guns for you to repair and you take several days......you better get a license.
Show us in the statutes where the length of time it takes to do a repair makes any difference whatsoever in regards to if an FFL is needed to conduct the repair. IT'S NOT THERE! Your post is complete FUDD.
Let me tell you this - if the guy at the gun show is charging $50 a pop to install night sights, and he installs a number of sets of night sights at the gun show, each taking him 10 minutes to do while the customer waits, he better well have an FFL because he is
ENGAGING IN THE BUSINESS of customizing firearms!
On the other hand, if my next door neighbor leaves his gun with me, and it takes me 3 days to install his night sights, and I don't charge him.... show me what statute requires me to have an FFL.
Why are YOU so caught up on the length of time a person keeps a gun, when there is NO MENTION of length of time in the statutes requiring gunsmiths to be licensed?!?
IT DOES NOT MATTER if the repairs are WHILE YOU WAIT, or take OVERNIGHT, or take THREE WEEKS! THE ONLY deciding factor is ENGAGED IN THE BUSINESS OF. "Engaged in the business of" is defined by whether or not the person repeatedly performs repairs for livelihood or profit. How long it takes to do a repair HAS NO BEARING on whether or not the person is "engaged in the business of" doing firearms repairs.
Where you are so greatly confused, and I am really surprised that you are so confused on this matter, is the statute requires a
licensed gunsmith to log a firearm in and out if they are going to keep it overnight or longer. The statute does not require a
licensed gunsmith to log in a firearm that they return the same day. But that statute only applies to gunsmiths
who are already licensed. If a person does not do repairs/customization for the purpose of livelihood or profit, if they are not enganged in the business of repairing firearms, no FFL is required, even if it takes me three hours, three days, or three years to repair/customize a gun - so long as the transfer of the gun is otherwise legal and so long as I am not doing it as a course of business. But when I do it five times in one day and charge each person a fee, an FFL is required even though the actions are done while the owner waits.