Looking to do my first face to face firearms transfer

[Bushwick100]

Just make sure he has his Gun Licence, pick a Place like Wal-Mart, Kroger it will make you feel safe. (DONT) do your Deals at night , until you get comfortable with ODT. I have made a few deals on ODT, all were good people! Check Feedback it's a must. Good Luck.

 

[Fatal_Bert]

PSA... Do not consent to Fatal_Bert . That is all.

Trust me, consent is easier than resisting.

 

[lokidogg]

Trust me, consent is easier than resisting.

He LOVES it when you do resist though.

 

[GeauxLSU]

Guy I met has a handgun I want and is willing to trade bullets I have for it.

Is a bill of sale REQUIRED or just recommended?
If recommended, is it more for the protection of the buyer or seller?

Georgia, Gwinnett county if that is relevant. Thanks!

As others have said, neither required nor recommended. I've not bothered inquiring about quite a few things due to the sellers arbitrary requirements. But absolutely their right to ask whatever they want.
If you really want a BOS, just make one up when you get home. ( <---- joking but hopefully that illustrates how useless they are).

 

[Mike The Fishmonger]

Thank you for all the answers and for making me shoot milk out my nose after watching that video
I briefly talked about it to him over the phone and was just like 'nah I don't really need it but if you want it you are more than welcome to write one up'

 

[lokidogg]

If anybody would ask that it would be of me. I had a 10-12" colored Mohawk. Tats and bad attitude (on here). I have nor once in my 8yrs had to give bill of sale or show my legal ability to own or possess. Good people on here. Read and TRUST feed back.

 

[drc302]

Although it’s a long shot, a BOS would offer some protection to both parties:

1) For seller to prove he wasn’t in his possession if buyer robs a bank and leaves that handgun behind (that is if FBI could even trace the handgun’s chain of possession).

2) For buyer to have some evidence of the date and from whom he purchased the handgun.. IF that handgun was previously stolen.

Again, they are long-shot, near worst case scenarios and I personally don’t subscribe to bills of sale.

So exactly # 1
In the 80s I sold 2 handguns to a guy, I did a bill of sale. A couple of months later he and a buddy decided to rob a bank (in Chicago) They shoot someone, one of them gets shot and killed (both guns end up on the floor of the bank) and the other guy gets away. One of the guns I sold I bought from a guy that was the original purchaser. When the FBI tracked the gun back to him(phone call to S & W, records of which dealer they sold it to, then the dealers cooperation for paperwork on the sale) he promptly told them had had sold the gun to me (we did the deal at my place of employment so he knew the address and gave them my name. So my place of employment was the next stop for the FBI. One of my co workers came and got me and told me the FBI was in the conference room , I thought I was being punked. Once it all became real the FBI followed me back to my apartment (right now) and retrieved the BOS. I was happy to have documentation of the date that I no longer owned of the firearm.
So as a result of all this I have a file with the FBI ( they make a file on everyone they have contact with).

You cant make this Sh8t up

 

[41mag]

%bos

 

[WyldeDime]

Back in the 90's, I went into my local firearm dealer and as soon as he saw me he said, "What did you ever do with that Glock you bought from me." It had been a while since I was in this place so the question caught me off guard. I told him that I had traded it to another gun store and asked how he could have possibly remembered selling me that gun and why he was asking. Turns out that gun was pulled off a drug dealer in Dalton, the police followed it from Glock, to distributor, to my local dealer, who dimed me to Dalton PD.

To this day I never heard anything from anyone except for my gun dealer. No one ever even made a phone call. No one gave a ****.

 

[lokidogg]

Back in the 90's, I went into my local firearm dealer and as soon as he saw me he said, "What did you ever do with that Glock you bought from me." It had been a while since I was in this place so the question caught me off guard. I told him that I had traded it to another gun store and asked how he could have possibly remembered selling me that gun and why he was asking. Turns out that gun was pulled off a drug dealer in Dalton, the police followed it from Glock, to distributor, to my local dealer, who dimed me to Dalton PD.

To this day I never heard anything from anyone except for my gun dealer. No one ever even made a phone call. No one gave a ****.

I got a call about a gun I bought from Moss pawn years ago. I sold it to a guy I worked with. Couple years later I get a phone call from a detective in NC asking if I owned said gun. Told him I sold it. He asked to whom I told him. Turned up in car headed to NY with 200 or so other stolen guns.