Re: Small business question
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">So your saying a gun store owner does not need a FFL since they do not remove anything from a gun?
Anyone taking a receiver into their possession needs a FFL.</div></div>
Part one of this qoute is incorrect.
This may help clarify when a FFL is required. It is plagerized from the ATF website:
<span style="font-style: italic">Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552(a); 18 U.S.C. 847, 921–930; 44 U.S.C. 3504(h).
(c) Dealer in firearms other than a gunsmith or a pawnbroker. A person who devotes time, attention, and labor to dealing in firearms as a <span style="text-decoration: underline">regular course of trade or business with the principal objective of livelihood and profit through the repetitive purchase and resale of firearms</span>, but such a 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;
(d) Gunsmith. A person who devotes time, attention, and labor to engaging in such activity as a <span style="text-decoration: underline">regular course of trade or business with the principal objective of livelihood and profit,</span> but such a term shall not include a person who makes occasional repairs of firearms or who occasionally fits special barrels, stocks, or trigger mechanisms to firearms;</span>
So the defining factor if a FFL is required is the fact of being engaged in 1-regulary occurring, 2-for profit, business.
Part two of the qoute is correct if you are engaged as a for profit business.
Best to CYA if you are going to retain custody of any serialized component of a firearm and get your FFL.
I would suggest if you have any questions to contact the BATF. They have always been helpful when I have had questions but I do e-mail them as opposed to a phone call. Always a good idea to have documentation.
Here is a link to the PDF code of regulations:
http://www.atf.gov/publications/download/p/atf-p-5300-4.pdf
Read it, learn it, live it.
I AM NOT AN ATTORNEY!
But I did sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night!
As far as the earlier post on coating changing the harmonics or having any effect on the performance/accuracy of a firearm I would like to see tangible evidence of such. If it is CORRECTLY performed I do not see how it could be detrimental. Not arguing that it is not possible but I am curious as to how. The weight added to a barrel is negligible.
It is true there will be customers that no matter what you do for them, they will not be happy.
But your best defense for those types is to ensure you do the absolute best quality work possible and to do the work correctly. That way you have solidified your position if a question arises. Very often if encountered with a question of the work performed and you have your ducks in a row you really dont give the customer a legitmate leg to stand on. Keep the manufacturers product and application documentation handy.
After you have been in business for a while you will begin to get a feel for those types beforehand and to tell you the truth, I try to steer clear of them. That $200.00 your going to get from them sometimes is not worth the aggrevation of dealing with them.
Is the customer always right?
Absolutely not, but they are ALWAYS the customer.
Every customer brings happiness to a business.
Some when they walk through the door.
Others when they walk out of the door.
Good luck with your business-it's a big step and sometimes a spooky step.
