Curio & Relic Eligible

[vlt]

The flyer I was given was from J&G Sales  -  http://jgsales.com/

[gewehr44]

"You may NOT engage in the business of buying and selling curios and relics under this license."

But my question is - let's say you order a Mosin Nagant off the internet and handle everything through your own C&R FFL.   Since it says the license is not intended for a C&R FFL holder to engage in the business of buying/selling curios & relics, is this to say that once a C&R rifle is "logged," so to speak, under your own C&R FFL, you can't sell it as you would otherwise be able to as a private individual?    

Possibly a dumb question, but I've always wondered.  Me, right now, could sell a long gun to pretty much any "suitable" individual, but does this mean if I obtained a C&R, I couldn't for any future C&R firearm purchases if done through my own C&R?

What it boils down to is if you are doing a lot of buying & selling, you had better have some good explanations for ATF if they decide to inspect you. There is nothing wrong with selling items if you are improving your collection (selling an inferior specimen after purchasing a better one) or changing the focus of your collection. 

ATF doesn't have a written definition of how many can be sold, but the more they see the deeper they will probe I would speculate. My local FFL was just telling me about somebody who got his C&R & was then buying stuff to sell to his friends. ATF was not very happy about that.

[mberoose]

Makes sense.  I guess if you're a C&R holder you should decide whether a gun is earmarked for your own collection indefinitely, or if it's a "ehh, maybe I'll sell it" type of thing, where you should just handle the transfer the traditional third-party FFL way and keep it off of your books.