Walk It Through: Selling a Rifle to a Neighbor
A neighbor wants an old hunting rifle, a nephew wants a shotgun, and a stranger offers to pay extra.
A neighbor offers cash for an old hunting rifle. Neither of them holds a dealer license.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
A sale of a long gun between Vermont neighbors. Sales across state lines, handguns to nonresidents, and a seller who holds a federal license 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.
- Immediate family memberFor a private gun transfer, a spouse, parent, child, sibling, grandparent or great grandparent, grandchild or great grandchild, and their step relations.
- Straw purchaseBuying a firearm for someone the buyer knows or should know is barred from having one, or who means to carry it in a felony.