Can an FFL transport?

[eltee]

I searched w/o much luck. :(

There are some local FFL dealer's (the actual licensees) who go to the Reno gunshow. I haven't asked because I don't know if it is legal, but can they buy a gun for me at the show, transport it back to California and then sell it to me and DROS it, etc.? I had been told that guns coming into California had to go by common carrier, etc. but I wonder about having an actual FFL licensee just bring it back instead.

I don't know if it would be a Nevada FFL to California FFL sale or a Nevada resident (non FFL) to California FFL sale, but it would likely be one or the other. I know a non-FFL cannot do it.

[Librarian]

As described, the sale would go first to a CA FFL - exactly the correct procedure.

[eltee]

So it is OK, then, for the licensed FFL to buy and transport the gun back to his place of business from the gunshow himself, and then process it as a California sale to me? Of course I am assuming the gun is totally permissable to sell in Calif. and can then be DROS'd etc. as a dealer sale. If the FFL can do the transport, is saves on shipping fees, packaging, delays, etc.

[freakshow10mm]

Yes, an FFL can buy out of state and physically bring a gun into CA.