30 Day Hold

The counties to the south do everything they can to make buying a gun burdensome.

With a state level pre-emption on gun laws, that's not much.

But the little they do squeeze in borders on the retarded.

This is where the 30-day hold on used guns comes in.  It's using the "pawn hold" and taking it to its maximum allowed limit.  The intent was for any used goods being sold to a pawn shop, but the law reads that you can apply it to any used good sold to a business that will later be resold.

So if you sell a gun to a gun shop in Pinellas or Hillsborough county, the gun shop will have to sit on it for a month before they can sell it, ostensibly to allow for a thorough check to see if the gun was stolen.

Here's where the retarded starts.

An FFL has access to shipping methods that I don't.  Cheaper methods.

Some FFL's won't accept a firearm from a non-licensee either.

If you hand your gun to an FFL to ship for you, they've got to enter it into their bound book and note its disposition when they ship it out.  Legally, the ownership changes.

In Pinellas and Hillsborough, that triggers the wait.  It's the wording of the law that trips things up again a "sale" of $0 is still a sale.