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Gun Control Reform Activism

ret5hd

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3. I believe they also made it harder to get/keep a FFL...

Reply to billh58 (Reply #2)

Sun Jan 22, 2017, 03:59 PM

Jan 2017

The way I remember it is that a whole hella lot of people had ffl's that were just individuals working out of their house...no real store or anything, mostly just acting as a licensed dealer to receive firearms ordered by others from catalogues, etc.

I might have that all wrong though.

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