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  • rascal

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    Feb 15, 2013
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    Still listed at $125
    Actually DSCA was initially telling people $125 per gun even for combined transactions, and has dropped it to $75 per if in one transaction. The "$50 discount will be applied to each additional firearm being processed within the same appointment per individual" is new and in fact if you call them they will now say $75 per which is $150 for two guns, not $200.
    No doubt they knew a week or two ago the new one was coming. The initially listed prices are not what DSCA is saying now if you call them.

    Sykes lost a lot of transfers to Virginia due to his prices. Now with two in DC we are already seeing discounts, and even deeper discounts probably will be had by negotiating privately.
     

    press1280

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    Jun 11, 2010
    7,878
    WV
    Actually DSCA was initially telling people $125 per gun even for combined transactions, and has dropped it to $75 per if in one transaction. The "$50 discount will be applied to each additional firearm being processed within the same appointment per individual" is new and in fact if you call them they will now say $75 per which is $150 for two guns, not $200.
    No doubt they knew a week or two ago the new one was coming. The initially listed prices are not what DSCA is saying now if you call them.

    Sykes lost a lot of transfers to Virginia due to his prices. Now with two in DC we are already seeing discounts, and even deeper discounts probably will be had by negotiating privately.

    How would he lose transfers to VA? A DC resident essentially HAS to buy to buy from a DC FFL, correct?
     

    rascal

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    Feb 15, 2013
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    How would he lose transfers to VA? A DC resident essentially HAS to buy to buy from a DC FFL, correct?

    There are a huge number of long gun purchases that go through Va or Md FFLS because of DC FFL prices.

    also there is a loss of lots of handgun FFL revenue for DC FFLs as well. At least three different ways they are losing fees on handguns:
    1) I have lots of pals would buy a second or third handgun that won't because of the $125 fee. So that is lost FFL revenue on handguns due to high fees.
    2) Also as happened to a friend, an uncle willed him a handgun worth about $100. Any rational person is just not going to register it in DC paying $125 to won something worth $100, whereas they would, paying a fee, if the fee were $34, $50, $75 or even $100 dollars.
    3) There are lots of people in DC who are residents of DC and a state. The BATFE does not limit you to residency of one state. If you have a home in DC and in Maryland or West Virginia, it is not like your drivers license where you have to pick one and only one and cant have two licenses. So if it a bit more hassle to 4473 your handgun from your W. Va. home and then register it in DC skipping DC FFL, and you would just use DC FFL if the fees were lower the DC FFLS are also losing FFL handgun fees that way. You may not go through a song and dance to save $40, but you may just do that to save $90.
    4) I also know people who have, when traveling on extended work, sabbatical, or deployment, transferred possession to a trusted family member though FFL transfer. They do so to reduce risk of theft, and required reporting of theft laws where risk of theft is elevated in a home with no one in it for say six months. If less people do that due ot high fees, there is also a lost fee.


    The high FFL fees mean they lose most long gun fees, and at least two types of handgun fees I noted.
     

    Biggfoot44

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    Aug 2, 2009
    32,876
    How so , given the attitudes and inclinations of the DC City government , and the essentially lockstep Political Class ( at actual City level , not DC as metaphor for Federal Government and related beauracy and lobbyists .)
     

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