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If I take a firearm to a smith here in CA, do I have to DROS it when he finishes work on it and I resume possession? Im hoping that the state would view it as 'lending/borrowing' but this is CA so I want to be sure of what it entails just to avoid sticker shock later.
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Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail. Oversentimentality, oversoftness, washiness, and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people." Teddy Roosevelt
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No, sir.
You can also ship it out of state to have work done, door to door. -
I think they have a repair book that they place your information into, and after your pick it up, they mark it released to you. No DROS is required. Also if they don't keep it, just repair it the same day it does not have to go into the repair book.Comment
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Unless they replace the frame no DROS is needed.You, you, and you: Panic. The rest of you, come with me.
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Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail. Oversentimentality, oversoftness, washiness, and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people." Teddy Roosevelt
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^This. Customers would bring us guns for warranty work. When they came back, we'd call them and they'd just pick it up. We had them fill out another 4473 and take a copy of their DL but that's above and beyond any requirements. Unless the frame is jacked and they have to issue a new frame/SN, shouldn't be a problem. Most of our rental shotguns were serviced by Bolsa Gunsmithing -never had to send any CFD letters to or from because they weren't new guns for sale either. In fact, if you read the 4473 it actually says a repair gun can be picked up by a spouse of associate of the original buyer, but you'd be hard-pressed to find any FFL that would ever release a repaired gun to anyone other than the original dude. Too much liability and it's just better business practice.VMI '11
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No FFL required at all.
You ship to the shops address. Of course insured, declared, overnight, signature, etc...whatever the normal requirements are.
After the work is done, they ship it back to you to the address provided.
Business rates are much better than normal retail rates, so sometimes is better to go to a FFL to ship or have the shop make a pre-paid label (I know Springfield does), not sure of other shops.
Only real reason to use a FFL, is for warranty work in the event they can not fix a serialized frame.Comment
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