Walk It Through: The Sale In The Parking Lot
A private handgun sale, a buyer who is seventeen, and a record that counts.
A handgun is advertised online, and a buyer who looks young offers cash in a parking lot.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
Private handgun sales under the state article. Rifles and shotguns, dealers' duties, federal background checks and transfers to family members are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Crime of violenceIn the handgun article, murder, manslaughter other than negligent manslaughter from a traffic accident, rape, mayhem, kidnapping, burglary, robbery, housebreaking, and the assaults the definitions list.
- HandgunUnder the handgun article, any firearm designed to expel a projectile and to be fired from the hand, other than antiques, curiosities or collector's items and firearms that do not fire fixed cartridges.
- Luggage compartmentThe trunk of a vehicle that has one; in a vehicle without one, the area designed for luggage, and in a station wagon, van, hatchback, truck or sport utility vehicle, the area behind the rearmost seat.