Question for selling rifle out of state.

[fryer1979]

I have a friend who would like to buy one of the AR-15 rifles I built off of me, and I'm not quite sure how to go about taking care of the transfer. It's been a long week and my brain is beyond fried, so the legal reads I have found are just making my head spin. Hopefully someone on here can explain to me in plain english how to go about transfering ownership from a California resident to a Nevada resident. I can travel to a Nevada gun shop easy enough, Reno is only 80 miles away. Unfortunately my local gun shop owner has a pretty crappy attitude if you aren't buying a gun from him, and he is being much less than helpfull (small town with only one shop). We would like to get this transfer taken care of beginning of next week, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[Mssr. Eleganté]

Two ways to do it, but both ways require that it go through a Nevada FFL...

1) You can ship the firearm to a dealer FFL that is local to your friend in Nevada. Some dealers won't accept shipments from non-FFLs. This is just a business decision on their part, there is no law against it. Your friend should check with his local gun shops to see if they will accept the shipment directly from you and to see how much they will charge him for the transfer. Pick the best FFL. The dealer will most likely want you to include a photocopy of your Driver's License. You can use UPS, FedEx Express, FedEx Ground or the USPS to ship him the rifle. (You say AR-15. I'm assuming it is a typical off list AR build. If it its a California registered assault weapon AR-15 then only a California FFL with a special assault weapons permit can ship it for you.

2) You can take it to Nevada yourself and deliver it to a Nevada FFL in person. Some Nevada FFLs might have chosen not to accept transfers this way, but it is perfectly legal. Have your friend check with his local gun shops to see if they will accept a transfer from you in person and how much they will charge. Pick the best FFL.

[kemasa]

As was said above, but just to clarify one aspect, if it is a registered so-called a-salt weapon, you can still bring it out of state to do the transfer or I believe you could also drive it out of state and then ship it (since it a CA law and you are outside of CA, it should not be an issue, although you should keep the records that you shipped it outside of CA).

[CSACANNONEER]

Make sure that the Nevada FFL understands that the only legal way for an out of state seller to sell to a NV resident is to go through a FFL. I'd suggest trying Cabella's (they cater to the California market and are used to doing interstate transfers) or Mark Four and Strike (only because a good friend of mine is a good friend of the owner and they have always been good to me as a CA resident) before some of the smaller anti-ca, filled with FUD by DOJ shops in town that will probably try to convince you that since you are currently in NV, you wouldn't have to use a FFL at all.

[fryer1979]

Thanks guys, we get it all squared away. The AR is in the new hands of a very happy friend. BTW, if you ever need a good gun shop in the Reno/Sparks area, Bazzar Guns is a good shop with good people.