Originally Posted By: bubbatime
In some states if you buy a gun from a private person (non-dealer) that lives in your state, its possible to have it delivered to your door. But 99.9% of transactions, no, you would have to go through a gun dealer and you would not be able to deliver it to your door.
I just order the gun with the best price from an online retailer, who ships it to my local pawn shop/dealer, who then transfers it to me in 5 minutes flat for $15. Easy as pie.
In Memphis, where I'm from, the gun dealers got mad because of all the business they were losing to online sales, so they conspired to gouge people on transfer fees. Now it's $60, I believe, at any Memphis gun store, for a transfer fee.
(I don't live there anymore; I was helping my sister find a 1911 last year when I found this out.)