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Auctioneers around the country continue to violate federal law regarding selling firearms at auction. The key issue is “partnering” with...
Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
- Sep 6, 2023
- 2 min
Are you using another’s FFL?
You? An auctioneer who’s selling firearms and isn’t licensed as a Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL.) You decide you will utilize an FFL...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
- Jul 12, 2023
- 2 min
Auctioneers, firearms, stabilizing braces
An additional question — beginning in 2023 — for auctioneers selling firearms is: Does the “stabilizing brace” make it salable under the...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
- Apr 24, 2023
- 3 min
Auctioneers, 501(c)(3)’s, Firearms
The selling of firearms by auction is highly regulated. The federal government dictates there is [typically] only one scenario where the...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
- Apr 13, 2020
- 2 min
Auctioneers, firearms & a pandemic
In light of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Curtis W. Gilbert, Acting Assistant Director U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
- Feb 26, 2020
- 2 min
Auctioneers, firearms and raffles
If the organization owns the gun being raffled, and all other laws are being followed in that particular state about raffles, that...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
- Jan 9, 2020
- 2 min
Dating a firearm … and is it important?
This can be challenging primarily because firearms in the United States were not required to have serial numbers until October 22, 1968. ...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
- Dec 26, 2019
- 3 min
Auctioneers and Second Amendment sanctuary regulations
The resolutions oppose enforcement of universal gun background checks, high capacity magazine bans, assault weapon bans, red flag laws,...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
- Nov 8, 2019
- 3 min
Auctioneers, firearms and “There must be a way …?”
https://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com/2016/01/11/15-things-about-auctioneers-and-guns/. Generally speaking, we have been trying...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
- Oct 16, 2019
- 3 min
Firearm laws for auctioneers
Firearm laws for auctioneers might not be completely “black and white” but it’s very close. We’ve written about auctioneers selling...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
- Oct 9, 2019
- 4 min
Federal law, auctioneers and firearms
Some of these laws are United States Code (Federal Law,) while others are regulatory laws from the Code of Federal Regulations. Further,...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
- Mar 5, 2018
- 2 min
Minimum age to buy a firearm
That is, unless state or local laws say there are required ages in excess of 18. For example, could California say one must be 22 to buy...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
- Aug 28, 2017
- 2 min
Auctioneers “Engaging in the business” of selling firearms
Federal Firearms License. So what does it mean to be engaged in the business of selling firearms at auction? The Bureau of Alcohol,...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
- Aug 24, 2017
- 2 min
Auction: Control and possession of firearms
We continue to analyze prudent behavior for auctioneers when selling firearms at auction. In this treatise, we address specifically an...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
- Sep 29, 2016
- 2 min
When does an FFL need to be an auctioneer?
The ATF licenses persons who “engage in the business” of selling firearms in the United States. A Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL) is...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
- Sep 9, 2016
- 3 min
What is an “estate” in regard to firearms?
When can an auctioneer sell a firearm without a Federal Firearms License (FFL?) When does an auctioneer need an FFL? We’ve recently...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
- Aug 27, 2016
- 4 min
How does auctioneer-FFL licensing work?
Auctioneers encounter all types of licensing requirements almost no matter where they live in the United States. auctioneering the sale...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
- Jan 11, 2016
- 4 min
15 things about Auctioneers and guns
Of various topics discussed at such get-togethers, selling guns at auction is certainly explored. In concert with selling guns, the...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
- Aug 17, 2015
- 2 min
Auctioneer with the help of an FFL …
“We’re not an FFL, but we’ll take them to our facility.” “We have a nearby FFL who will be at the auction to secure the firearms.” “He’ll...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
- Jun 22, 2015
- 3 min
Gun buyer at auction is denied
Federal Firearms Licensee (FF.) The buyer fills out the ATF Form 4473 and subsequently is denied possession of the gun. Upon denial, the...
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