How does a business buy a firearm?

[K Train]

we were talking at work today and someone brought up the question, 'how does a business purchase a firearm?' for whatever reason, like buying a work truck they want to buy a work gun, how does the business go about doing it? how is the background check performed?

not a FFL, but a regular business

 

[jjbduke2004]

I wondered the same thing for when I move up north to work in NJ. I wondered if trusts worked for NFA, then couldn't I live in NJ and have land in PA and a Pennsylvania corporation to own the good stuff?

Apparently, unless the business is an FFL, a 4473 must be filled out by an individual purchaser. The trust/corporation thing only works for NFA.

 

[K Train]

I wondered the same thing for when I move up north to work in NJ. I wondered if trusts worked for NFA, then couldn't I live in NJ and have land in PA and a Pennsylvania corporation to own the good stuff?

Apparently, unless the business is an FFL, a 4473 must be filled out by an individual purchaser. The trust/corporation thing only works for NFA.

Yeh i was coming to the same conclusion but couldn't find any documentation

 

[jjbduke2004]

I only googled and found something on a gunboard, but I've never seen a legal reference. Maybe they extend the courtesy to NFA since a tax has to be paid every time it changes hands. By having a corporate owner, you can change owners of the corporation without it legal changing hands.

I summon Novus.

 

[Ab_Normal]

An officer of the corporation has to make the purchase and submit to the background check.

 

[Grampa G]

I know that clubs will pay dealers to order guns for prizes of an events and it's considered inventory till someone fills out the 4473.

 

[kalister1]

An officer of the corporation has to make the purchase and submit to the background check.

I am going with this one. A business does not hold the FFL, an individual does. I would think it works the same way?

 

[novus collectus]

I am going with this one. A business does not hold the FFL, an individual does. I would think it works the same way?

A corporation and a partnership can hold an FFL, but an individual still has to fill out the application and sign it.

 

[novus collectus]

we were talking at work today and someone brought up the question, 'how does a business purchase a firearm?' for whatever reason, like buying a work truck they want to buy a work gun, how does the business go about doing it? how is the background check performed?

not a FFL, but a regular business

From form 4473:

When the buyer of a firearm is a corporation, company, association, partnership, or other such business entity, an officer authorized to act on behalf of the business must complete Section A, and attach a written statement, executed under penalties of perjury, stating: (A) the firearm is being acquired for the use of and will be the property of that business entity and (B) the name and address of that business entity. If the buyer's name in question 1. is illegible the seller must print the buyer's name above the name written by the buyer.

 

[novus collectus]

And I am not sure, but I believe a NICS check is done on the person who filled out the form. The difference I believe is if the person is not a resident of that state but the business is located in that state, the person acting as an officer of the business can still purchase a handgun or some such for that business from the FFL.