To Permit or Not to Permit

[Guest DanSpurling]

Is a TN resident required to have a permit to purchase a handgun?  I know a permit is needed to carry (and that permit is in the works), but for now I am just interrested in purchase requirements.  Also, do TN laws still allow handgun sales between private citizens regardless of permit status?

[cz75b]

no permit required to buy,and yes private sales allowed as long as you aren't knowingly selling to someone who can't legally own a firearm.

[Guest DanSpurling]

Thank you CZ.

[10-Ring]

Also no permit needed to car carry.

[MadMarx]

Also, you can only buy and sell with a person in your state of residence. An example, my son recently moved to TN from Virginia. I could not sell or buy from him until he establishes residency here in TN, by changing his license to a TN license and registering his vehicle here. Even though he is using a room in my house right now.

[Oh Shoot]

Also, you can only buy and sell with a person in your state of residence.

 

Well, to be precise, both must be same state residents (actually, that the seller has no reason to believe otherwise) and sale must occur in that state for it to be legal for both seller and buyer (buyer can not bring into state of his residence a firearm obtained in private transaction in another state period).

 

- OS

[Trekbike]

An example, my son recently moved to TN from Virginia. I could not sell or buy from him until he establishes residency here in TN,

Being that he is a relative, would the same be true if it was a gift?

How is it handled if a parent dies and leaves his son, from another state, his firearms in a will?

[Oh Shoot]

Being that he is a relative, would the same be true if it was a gift?

 

Yes. Gift or sale same, even between relatives, it is a transfer. Ironically, the much despised Manchin-Toomey Act would have exempted this, very liberal no-background checks for all kinds of extended relatives and even in-laws best I remember.

 

How is it handled if a parent dies and leaves his son, from another state, his firearms in a will?

 

Interstate succession is an exception in 18 USC 922. Even without a will, as I understand it:

 

"...the transfer, transportation, or delivery of a firearm made to carry out a bequest of a firearm to, or an acquisition by intestate succession of a firearm by, a person who is permitted to acquire or possess a firearm under the laws of the State of his residence"

 

 

also:

"... the loan or rental of a firearm to any person for temporary use for lawful sporting purposes"

 

- OS

Edited May 12, 2015 by Oh Shoot