How many home FFLs?

I know of at least one in my region (DFW metroplex), from whom I purchased a new-in-box Remington 700 VSF in .308 about a year ago. They operate a commercial website, and they will ship to your FFL of preference; but if you are a local customer, you can also drive over to their home - which is what I did - and buy the firearm face to face. Their home is located in a nice middle class residential neighborhood. I have no idea whether their neighborhood zoning allows businesses to operate there, and for obvious reasons, I don't want to give any more information about them than what I've already stated here; but they do have a thriving business. They are honest, and their prices are very competitive ($831 for the above mentioned left-handed Remington, with MSRP set at $1,185), and they were personally very pleasant to deal with. I would gladly do so again.

I live in urban Northern Virginia, and do all of my FFL transfers and purchases through a dealer who operates exclusively out of his home. I've been dealing with him since '03, and I don't know how long before then he was operating.

I won't be any more specific as to the location, but I will say it does NOT seem like the kind of place that would have lax zoning regulations. Not that I care. He's cheap and has always been honest.

I've dealt with a FFL that has said he is "grandfathered" and has run a gun business out of his house for forty years. This is in far suburban Chicago area.

Here in Houston we don't have zoning, so there's quite a few home-based FFLs. Heck, the one I use is a Class 2 manufacturer; he makes suppressors in his garage.

I know of one not too far from me, who I use from time to time. Good guy, but have never discussed the issues surrounding the business.

Well, my favorite C7/SOT FFL operates out of his house. I know of at least one other standard FFL here in this town who operates out of his house.

When the regulations about which you speak were instituted, I was a full time police officer who held an FFL for the purpose of providing firearms at low cost to fellow officers. The regulations certainly fulfilled their purpose where I was concerned. Zoning issues didn't persuade me to give up my FFL, but regulations requiring on site inspections, elaborate burglar alarms and similarly draconian tripe made providing a useful service to police officers far more trouble than it was worth.

The one I know lives out in the country where zoning is minimal. He's been running a small side business casting bullets--He says he started when the Viet Nam war interfered with his personal ammo supply. I don't know how long he's had an FFL.

There are some here in tallahassee.

Having had a couple of inspections at my residence becasue of a home FFL, I can say that so far no problems. The last inspection was last month. Just a check of the books and went over regulations. Nice inspector. The inpsectors now work out of their homes and handle FFL's in their territory. Home FFl's people do not seem to be a target. This is in a mid atlantic state.

As everyone would have guessed, Massachusetts provides the counterpoint here. Not only have the essentially disappeared, but the former AG was actually arguing that exemptions and waivers granted to some FFLs by local zoning authorities weren't valid.

I am one of the small ones that survived. I am in NW TX area and also teach CHL classes. I have a range just out my back door. What saved me was that I live outside the city limits and I own my property. I am also out of the way for inspectors. I did have to get set up for sales tax purposes, but outside the city limits the sales tax is 2% less than in several nearby towns. The bad part is that so many customers will drive 60 miles and pay more so they can have a "store bought" gun as that somehow makes it better. I have had some drive 300 miles to Dallas for the same price so they can say they have a "store bought gun from Dallas" (sometimes people are just downright strange). As of the last two years or so, I do more online auction transfers that I do sales. Usually they pay a lot more and wait just as long instead of having me order unless it is a special collector's item or a used gun they have been looking for. Right around here retail sales and CCW classes have been very slow the last year.

An acquaintance (and my connection to a community of NFA-firearms aficionados) had a home-FFL.

He claims that the township he lives in has found ways to halt renewals of existing FFL's within the township boundaries. He claimed to be the last FFL holder inside the township boundaries, and was not able to get his FFL renewed.

This was in a township in SE Michigan. However, to all appearances the situation may be unique to that township.

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