Got a Question...

[MKW]

Can I, being a resident of SC, buy a gun at a gun store in GA?? I know I could have it transferred, but I mean while I'm there, will I be able to buy it and bring it home?? Anybody know??

[carolinaboy06]

Can I, being a resident of SC, buy a gun at a gun store in GA?? I know I could have it transferred, but I mean while I'm there, will I be able to buy it and bring it home?? Anybody know??

Long gun, you can.

Pistol, there will most likely be a hold, even with a CWP if I remember correctly.

I bought a long gun online when I moved to GA. Found a guy through the FFL finder that was close by. We did the paper work, I gave him the money and walked out. I was still a SC resident at the time.

He told me that it wouldn't be that easy if I bought a pistol.

[SCDAWG]

You can, just not a pistol. That goes for an AR lower also because it can be made into a pistol

[SCtrkyhntr1]

Long guns only

[MKW]

Thanks, yall. That's what I thought.

[SOUTHERN WOODS]

FYI: I have purchased a stripped AR lower out of state with no problems.
As mentioned long guns are ok, pistols you may be able to buy them but the owner would have to ship to your in-state ffl.

[SCDAWG]

I live in North Augusta and had a lower shipped to a place in Augusta. ATF wouldn't do the transfer because it could be turned into a pistol. May be a way around that

[USMCsilver]

When a lower is sold, the 1043 has a place to state whether it is a rifle, or pistol. At this point of origin, the weapon is designated as what it is to be for the life of it.

You can turn a pistol lower into a rifle, but you can't do it the other way around.

If you buy a lower from a bordering state, they can originate it as a rifle, and sell it to you...as they'll essentially be selling a rifle.

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[MKW]

When a lower is sold, the 1043 has a place to state whether it is a rifle, or pistol. At this point of origin, the weapon is designated as what it is to be for the life of it.

You can turn a pistol lower into a rifle, but you can't do it the other way around.

If you buy a lower from a bordering state, they can originate it as a rifle, and sell it to you...as they'll essentially be selling a rifle.

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So, if they mark the lowers as "rifle" instead of "other" (as they do here), they can sell them to me in GA?? That makes sense...if I'm understanding you correctly.

[USMCsilver]

So, if they mark the lowers as "rifle" instead of "other" (as they do here), they can sell them to me in GA?? That makes sense...if I'm understanding you correctly.

If, on the form, they mark it as a rifle, then there should be no "gray area". It is being "born" as a rifle, and shall live its life as such.

I've never heard otherwise; yet I've been wrong once a time or two before.