What exactly is the point in peeking at my gwcl?

[palmettomoon]

Everybody should just go get a 'junior FFL' and a stack of 4473's. That'll solve everything. You'll have your paper trail to prove who you sold your firearm to.

 

[Kahrnut]

I don't mind showing anyone mine.

 

[Radar363]

I suppose you could ask to see a parole card instead. Either way, you get the info you need.

On a more serious note: If you ever got sued by someone (or their family) who was victimized using a gun you sold privately, and you ended up in front a jury, everything you testify can hold sway on the outcome. If you said, "I asked to see a GA weapons permit and the buyer showed it to me," you could easily sway the jury in your favor, if someone was claiming your negligence contributed to their harm.

I'm not sure why anyone has a problem with it. It's not like someone is creating a paper trail that could be abused by the government, just by looking at your GA weapons license. You leave a much bigger (digital) footprint here, in email, and with phone calls.

Can you site a case in GA where this has ever happened?

 

[jaf1]

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Carries a large caliber.

 

[Joshua223]

Get the license then get convicted and guess what...if you are that worried go to an FFL and pay them to process the transaction

Carry license holders are far less likely to be convicted of a serious crime. Maybe because they don't want to lose their license?
If it makes a person feel more comfortable with a sale then that is their business. People I have not asked for a GWCL usually still offer to show it.

 

[Hayata]

View attachment 1662931 I don't mind showing anyone mine.

Dude just won the internet for the day...

 

[Bubbado52]

Due dillegence

 

[dondon48]

P.S. For a few years now, Georgia has had a law that says courts must, when sentencing a person for an offense that would disqualify them from gun ownership or GWL eligibility, inquire of the defendant to ask if that person has a GWL. If so, the Court will inform the person that it is revoked (and/or that any gun possession from this time forward is unlawful). The court will forward a copy of the sentence sheet to the Probate Court where that license was issued so that the Probate Court can mark the records under that person's file as "revoked."

I don't have a citation to that law handy, sorry. It's not a very well known one.

And of course the newly minted felon would never lie about having GWL

 

[dondon48]

Its a small thing to ask to see a ga driver license or gwl.

No info needs to be copied or kept, but I want to know Ive sold a weapon to someone who is likely to at least be a GA resident and in the case of a gwl, more likely to not be a felon.

Because no felon would ever have a fraudulent license

 

[November Sierra]

I usually did it to verify they're a state resident before I sell a pistol.