Gun collectors.

[HK-40]

Is a person who collects firearms , goes to gun shows , buys , sells , researches and trades firearms and firearm related items (grips, boxes, scopes etc), in a perfectly legal fashion is engaging in the business of dealing in firearms W/O a license?

[djbooya]

For profit yes. Enhance personal collection no.

[HK-40]

For profit yes. Enhance personal collection no.

What if occasional profit is in form of guns, accessories etc? Something like winning at the casino ,but not cashing the chips.

[SVT-40]

If your intent is to make money through the sale and purchase of firearms you are in business...

If you acquire, hold and dispose of firearms in your collection with the intent of "improving" your collection you are a "collector"...

Just because you may make a profit when you dispose of a firearm in your collection does not mean you are "in the business" of selling firearms.


From the BATFE:

"(C) as applied to a dealer in firearms,
as defined in section
921(a)(11)(A), a person who devotes
time, attention, and labor to dealing
in firearms as a regular course of
trade or business with the principal
objective of livelihood and profit
through the repetitive purchase and
resale of firearms, but such term
shall not include a person who
makes occasional sales, exchanges,
or purchases of firearms for the enhancement
of a personal collection or
for a hobby, or who sells all or part of
his personal collection of firearms; "


(22) The term "with the principal
objective of livelihood and profit"
means that the intent underlying the
sale or disposition of firearms is predominantly
one of obtaining livelihood
and pecuniary gain, as opposed to
other intents, such as improving or liquidating
a personal firearms collection:
Provided, That proof of profit shall not
be required as to a person who engages
in the regular and repetitive purchase
and disposition of firearms for
criminal purposes or terrorism."


Check out the below link for more info...

https://www.atf.gov/firearms/faq/curios-relics.html