Looking for a FFL or C&R Holder

[Karl Ferguson]

Are there any members in or around the Bryan/College Station area with a FFL or C&R that could receive a Parker for me ?

Please PM me if you can help.

Thanks, Karl

[Craig Larter]

Karl: A C&R FFL licensee can't receive a gun for anyone but themselves.

[Karl Ferguson]

Thanks Craig… I was not aware of that

[Brian Dudley]

Gunbroker has a search for an FFL by zip code feature.

[Karl Ferguson]

To clarify my original post...

There are a couple of gun shops I have used in the past that insist on putting the gun together when they unpack it even after me asking them not to and they handed me the gun without the forend on because they tried but couldn't get it on but luckily they didn't break it.

My 3 day inspection period nearly ran out last time before they would let me pick up the gun.

I'm just hoping to find someone that has knowledge of vintage guns and can handle the transfer for me without all the stress.

Thanks

[Dean Romig]

Whenever I ship or receive a gun, Parker or otherwise I always do it through a business with a FFL. Never been a problem at all.





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[Garry L Gordon]

To clarify my original post...

There are a couple of gun shops I have used in the past that insist on putting the gun together when they unpack it even after me asking them not to and they handed me the gun without the forend on because they tried but couldn't get it on but luckily they didn't break it.

My 3 day inspection period nearly ran out last time before they would let me pick up the gun.

I'm just hoping to find someone that has knowledge of vintage guns and can handle the transfer for me without all the stress.

Thanks


I don't know what your town is like, Karl, but it sounds a bit like the small town we live near and to which I have guns sent. I had a pawn shop FFL that "researched" the gun so that they could tell me how much I paid for it (and all of the folks in the pawn shop when I came to pick it up). Dealers in my experience never include the cost with the gun, and I always ask them not to. I've had some FFLs unpack the gun "for me" and while they do need to get the serial number, I'm like you and want to be in charge of the gun to unpack and examine it.

So, I hope this means you are about to get the gun of your search. I hope so. Those pheasants will need tending this Fall and a new gun would do it just right.:)

[Karl Ferguson]

I don't know what your town is like, Karl, but it sounds a bit like the small town we live near and to which I have guns sent. I had a pawn shop FFL that "researched" the gun so that they could tell me how much I paid for it (and all of the folks in the pawn shop when I came to pick it up). Dealers in my experience never include the cost with the gun, and I always ask them not to. I've had some FFLs unpack the gun "for me" and while they do need to get the serial number, I'm like you and want to be in charge of the gun to unpack and examine it.

So, I hope this means you are about to get the gun of your search. I hope so. Those pheasants will need tending this Fall and a new gun would do it just right.:)

You would be correct Garry... some dreams do come true thanks to a very fine gentleman here

[Bill Murphy]

Never let an FFL open your package unless you are present. Only about one out of twenty FFLs know how to assemble or disassemble a Parker or a Model 21 much less a Winchester pump gun without putting a gouge in the metal.

[Brian Dudley]

Never let an FFL open your package unless you are present. Only about one out of twenty FFLs know how to assemble or disassemble a Parker or a Model 21 much less a Winchester pump gun without putting a gouge in the metal.


I would think that nearly any ffl is going to open a package the day it comes in so that they can book the gun in promptly, the day it is received as they are supposed to do by law. This means getting the serial number off the gun and getting the copy of paperwork that would be in the box.

[Dean Romig]

Further, if they are signing for it they need to be sure it wasn't damaged in shipping - BUT DO NOT ASSEMBLE IT!!





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[CraigThompson]

We get a pile of stuff shipped in for other folks and my friend out front generally unpacks when they come in the front door . HOWEVER ........., when I have one coming I ask him to watch out for it as I WANT TO OPEN the box so if something happens when it was opened I did it or it was that way before I opened it . We shipped a pristine Remington 742 to someone a couple years ago , when the person went to the dealers to look it over there was a fresh deep scratch on the side of the reciever just like a knife did it . The pictures I had on GB showed no such scratch and the dealer “claimed” it was there when they opened the box , he wasn’t lying he scratched it with the knife to deep and then folded the top back . Anyway the buyer knew it as well and kept the gun . Ever since that happened I make sure I’m at the shop to open my own . I don’t think my friends will scratch them , but if it happens I’d rather it was me that did it cause I’ll have to eat the end result either way .

[dwight pugh]

Just had that problem...receiving Ffl decided to assemble a Baker RES...broke the stock through the wrist...destroyed a beautiful artifact..beware who receives your gun...