If I'm in the waiting room, and I need to perform a FTF...

[dukesean]

So my paperwork is getting processed by Texas DPS, but will need to do a FTF firearms transfer. Since I would rather the person not know where I live, my place is out. Because I don't yet have my license, is a gun range the only place I can meet for the transfer?

[seamusTX]

I recommend meeting at a range. It's perfectly legal to have handguns or long guns there, and the buyer can test the piece he's buying if he wants. You also have staff as a deterrent to skullduggery.

Meeting somewhere like a parking lot, you run the risk that security guards or a sharp-eyed citizen will call the police.

- Jim

[dukesean]

I recommend meeting at a range. It's perfectly legal to have handguns or long guns there, and the buyer can test the piece he's buying if he wants. You also have staff as a deterrent to skullduggery.

Meeting somewhere like a parking lot, you run the risk that security guards or a sharp-eyed citizen will call the police.

- Jim

Thanks Jim, that was exactly what I was thinking, I just needed to hear it from someone else too

-Sean

[longtooth]

With the above.

[frankie_the_yankee]

Why would you sell a gun to (or buy one from) someone who you would feel uncomfortable in having them come over your house?

[seamusTX]

I don't know about Sean, but I don't like having strangers who contact me through classified ads coming to my house. I've had them show up drunk or late at night. I haven't sold anything that way for years.

- Jim

[frankie_the_yankee]

I don't know about Sean, but I don't like having strangers who contact me through classified ads coming to my house. I've had them show up drunk or late at night. I haven't sold anything that way for years.

- Jim

I've sold the occassional car that way from time to time.

If anyone showed up at my house drunk, or late at night, or if I just didn't like the way they looked, I would simply tell them that the item was no longer available and that they should simply leave.

At that point, they had better leave.

FWIW, I wouldn't sell a gun to anyone who I didn't know personally unless they could produce good ID and a TX CHL. But that's just my policy.

If they have a CHL, I wouldn't worry about them coming to my house, or showing up drunk, etc.

Beyond that, I stopped selling guns a long time ago. All I do these days is buy one every now and then.

[dukesean]

I just don't like people knowing exactly where I live, unless I plan to invite them over for dinner sometime. And since I don't plan to sell my XD with a free steak, I'd rather sell in a public place suitable for firearm transfers, like a gun range. I know some people have reservations about selling firearms to strangers, but personally I think it is no different than selling a car or any other tool. Just my $0.02

p.s. the potential buyer backed out anyways (read: it's still available) so it's kind of a moot point, for now

[frankie_the_yankee]

I just don't like people knowing exactly where I live, unless I plan to invite them over for dinner sometime. And since I don't plan to sell my XD with a free steak, I'd rather sell in a public place suitable for firearm transfers, like a gun range. I know some people have reservations about selling firearms to strangers, but personally I think it is no different than selling a car or any other tool. Just my $0.02

p.s. the potential buyer backed out anyways (read: it's still available) so it's kind of a moot point, for now

Anybody with a phone book can find out where most of us live.

How many times do we maintain here on this forum and in other places that CHLs are good people, the "good guys", etc.? For my own part, I happen to believe it. So I would have no problem doing a FTF gun transfer to a CHL at my house. If I were selling a gun thorugh a classified, I would state clearly in the ad "CHLs only" or words to that effect.

If I just wanted to get rid of the gun without bothering with handling the details myself, I would just wholesale it to an FFL and be done with it.

All that said, I can see the point of going to a range as well. It gives the buyer the chance to "try before buying", and there's nothing wrong with that. Of course, I can do that at my place as well but I realize that most people can't.

I just think it's strange for we, of all people, to seem creeped out by the idea of someone responding to an ad coming over to our house - especially if one concerned onesself with just CHLs.

[boomerang]

So my paperwork is getting processed by Texas DPS, but will need to do a FTF firearms transfer. Since I would rather the person not know where I live, my place is out. Because I don't yet have my license, is a gun range the only place I can meet for the transfer?

You can do it in your car.

[dukesean]

Anybody with a phone book can find out where most of us live.

How many times do we maintain here on this forum and in other places that CHLs are good people, the "good guys", etc.? For my own part, I happen to believe it. So I would have no problem doing a FTF gun transfer to a CHL at my house. If I were selling a gun thorugh a classified, I would state clearly in the ad "CHLs only" or words to that effect.

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I just think it's strange for we, of all people, to seem creeped out by the idea of someone responding to an ad coming over to our house - especially if one concerned onesself with just CHLs.

I didn't specify CHL only in my ad, maybe I should in the future, but even if I did, I don't think holding a CHL automatically entitles you to be my friend or to know where I live. Yes, I trust CHL holders more than the normal population, but I still don't see why anyone needs to know where I live. That is all.

[seamusTX]

Anybody with a phone book can find out where most of us live....I just think it's strange for we, of all people, to seem creeped out by the idea of someone responding to an ad coming over to our house - especially if one concerned onesself with just CHLs.

It's true that anyone with functioning eyeballs can see your house and know where you live, but putting an ad in the paper or online seems to attract an undesireable type of attention. I ran a classified ad for a car years ago and had a guy call me in the middle of the night a month later.

You can say "CHL only" in your ad, but that does not guarantee that only people who actually have CHLs will answer it.

- Jim