I guess I’ll use this topic to rant about a local gunshop in my town, several years ago I tried to get an AK-V transferred to one of my local shops, they refused to do business with PSA and claimed they tried to defraud them. I was pissed cause I never had a problem with PSA and I haven’t shopped there since. I noticed PSA doesn’t have Thier FFL info and I’m glad they don’t. I feel like that gunship is elitist too, ya walk in there and there are no reasonably priced AR’s they are all 2k and up and they had no AK’s just hunting guns other than the AR’s.
If any other people from South Dakota are here did you ever encounter a problem like that?
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Yeah. we’ve got a local small town (1.800) population mom and pop FFL that also does hunting licenses and fishing licenses here in WV. Since the whole “Brace” debacle they’ve absolutely REFUSED to do business with anyone trying to have anything AR/AK pistol wise shipped to them. They won’t carry anything of the sort, and won’t accept anything trade/sell wise in that realm. It’s wild to me, to just say NO to a certain legal item, and lose all that income and profitability. I mean it’s their business and they can do whatever they wish, but it just doesn’t make any good sense to most of us. Other than my random pop in, just to walk around and window shop, I’ve not even them any of my business for over two years. I’d love to support a good honest local business, but I can’t when they turned their back on so many of us. Sad to see
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I live in a state that has a one-week waiting period if you don’t have a town-issued carry permit. There’s one FFL in town I’ve seen that will allow anyone to come in a get a heads up on the paperwork for guns they buy online as long as they can show a payment receipt even if it hasn’t arrived yet. Since, you know, they purchased it. These guys will also allow you to transfer multiple firearms on one transfer fee as long as you do them all at once.
There’s another that won’t allow any paperwork started until your gun arrives. So you have to wait the entire processing and shipping period, then a whole other week. They also nail you for a transfer fee for every single firearm, even if they’re stripped lowers.
I’m surprised the latter does any business at all.
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Brutal, just doesn’t make any sense to me? I might be able to see having more pull and power on what you will and will not deal with, FFL wise in a fairly high to high foot traffic and transfer location. But in these small towns, where the only other FFL is a paid sportsman’s club, or local PD or the one and only pawn & gold shop within 40 miles, it’ll Never seem right to me, to completely cut out something a simple as braced pistols, and or dealing with them altogether.
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It’s not just the out of the way places. There’s a gunshop here that raised their transfer fee to $60 because they were tired of doing them!
That would convince me to very quickly become “tired” of being their customer.
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Oh yea, I haven’t been back since, it’s been like 3 years since I been in there. I’ll do business with anyone else but them.
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I’m West River, South Dakota. Pennington has so many FFL’s to choose from. So if one town has an ornery dealer you just go somewhere else.
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