NY SAFE Act: FFLs are refusing to do private-sale transfers.

[Straw Man]

29. You have no idea what you're talking about.

Think about it...... An FFL holder could specialize in these types of transferes and have a business that requires NO INVENTORY.

There were folks that were doing this at Colorado gun shows and they were making money HAND OVER FIST!

I have never had a transfer that took less than half an hour, when you add up the paperwork and the time spent on the actual check. So let's say $20 an hour, but how many could you do in a day? You'd have to advertise, and that costs something. In an urban or suburban area it might be viable.

Then there's this to consider: At the peak of the gun-buying frenzy last winter, some NICS checks were taking as much as three hours to return a result. (This is with the computerized submission -- a phone check would have encountered nothing but busy signals.) The lines were just that backed up. For a $10 transfer, that's $3.33 per hour. At the time when your services were most in demand, you would be forced to turn customers away because you couldn't accommodate them. Oopsie.

At a gun show, an FFL could do some volume, certainly. Of course, he'd have to pay for his table. Then think: How many gun shows are there a month in a given area? Or are you envisioning itinerant FFLs, who follow the gun shows around the country like Deadheads, living in their vans and making money HAND OVER FIST! Just imagine how rich they'd get: not only NO INVENTORY, but no rent or mortgage payment either!

I imagine your Colorado entrepreneurs were charging more than $10, right? No state law capping their fees?

You're a riot. A real riot.