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The latest bill from Cuomo will put a dent in a lot of the tabletop dealers who are left. Twenty years ago there were around twelve true tabletop dealers in my county. Now, I'm it. If the legislation requiring cameras, alarms, fireproof safes, etc passes....and I have little faith that it won't...

I'm good with the conversation. Sorry if anyone took offense at anything that was said

Sounds good on paper, but here's the reality...if all of the local dealers go under, where are you going to get your transfers done? Are you really going to be willing to drive an hour each way to go to one of the dwindling number of FFLs as regulations and pricing issues cause more and more...

There's some truth to your comment. I can guess that perhaps dealing with certain segments of the gun community has a corrosive effect on their spirit.

Thanks for proving my point. Some people will say that service will rope them in the door of the local gun store. Or that they'll throw a few bucks towards something else in the place. Which some do. In the end, most gun buyers are motivated purely by the bottom line. Which is understandable...

The legislation that Cuomo wants to pass will kill off kitchen table dealers, which is exactly what he wants I can't speak for other FFLs. I stock the stuff my regulars ask for. If you guys aren't finding ammo, cleaning supplies etc that you want,you should be voicing your concern to your local...

People say stuff like that on gun forums a lot, but I think that in the end the determining factor for customers IS the price, and small stores simply cannot compete against the low overhead internet websites

Once again, you're talking about the actual time spent doing the transfer itself, not what goes on before the transfer Edit there are quite a few people who place online orders that get sent with minimal issues. You're not seeing the people who text or call me at any time between 6 am to...

This oft-repeated mantra that a transfer is only five minutes of work for the FFL is really misleading and incorrect

Define " flock" Lots of variables to success as an FFL. I guess that given that, you need to define what success means to you as an FFL. Is it a hobby. Is it something you rely on to put food on your table. And so on and so on. The population you serve and how much competition you have from...

Don't worry, they're doing their best to shut down as many tabletop dealers, ban home gunsmithing and force everyone to take a psych exam in order to buy a firearm. If they had their way there wouldn't be any dealers or gun buying customers

People who find themselves in that situation repeatedly had best jump through the hoops to get a UPIN. It may not solve the problem completely, but it's a start. Also, you should have gotten a denial card from the FFL. Follow up and try to figure out why you're getting denied

Semi retired now. So far the only thing planned is a week in the Adirondacks mid-summer. I'm sure that other opportunities will present themselves the closer we get to warmer weather

The 1993 blizzard, as many of them, impacted more than Syracuse. Not sure why it should be named after Syracuse....

He's right, though.

If you can't find a replacement from the original manufacturer, this company will sell you after-market replacement poles. They just need to know how long the pole needs to be. https://tentpoletechnologies.com/

I bet it wont be played in either the local multi-plex nor the lefty artsy art film place. Maybe, we shall see. I would probably see it if I had the opportunity. Has to beat the next installment of the Fast and Furious franchise.

I'd watch it, but I bet it never makes it to the major theatre chains and winds up in the second run theatres and maybe small art house places.

There isn't a day I go hiking on state land where I don't come back out with a grocery sack filled with other peoples trash. Some people are just pigs

Bail must be "reasonable". Short of particularly gruesome homicides, you aren't going to find many "no bail" remands to jail. Because of concerns about fairness to poor minority suspects, states like NYS are doing away entirely with cash bail for all but the most serious offenses, so even more...

Just shows how much use-able stuff society throws away, that this guy can thrive for years on stuff that regular society doesn't want.

Third world country residents die from dysentery and other problems related to their poor water quality. It isn't an issue of building up immunity to pathogens.

The answer is going to depend on your post-disaster plans, budget and skill sets. If you're not going to be moving around, learn to construct a working sand filter that can handle the quantity of water you're going to need. There are commercial expedition/ base camp filters that can also handle...

Personally, I would try to get at least a couple of cameras at more or less head level. Not sure how you could conceal them so they wouldn't be vandalized, but camera footage where you can actually make out their faces and not just see their bald spot goes a long ways towards identifying someone...

Haven't noticed it. Do canned veggie sales go down in summer due to availability of fresher alternatives?

I think that they are intentionally pricing that service so high in order to encourage you to buy what they have on the shelf. The state only allows $10 per private transfer; the fee was written into the unSAFE act and at the time the politicians were slapping themselves on the back, saying...

And therein lies the problem with on-line vendors essentially selling their stuff at what is the wholesale price. You're right that its your money, but as I said, some people have come to expect the wholesale price to be the retail price. Its in some ways a re-run of what happened when Wal-Mart...

Except that you're trying to compare apples and oranges. You're trying to compare an on-line vendor with low overhead, who gets inventory under entirely different arrangements than what your local B & M does, or doesn't have inventory at all and simply drop ships your order directly from a...

I will say that the threat may NOT be an idle one, depending on where you live in the state. When I became an FFL 26 years ago, there were a dozen or so small FFLs like myself around my own county. That was in addition to the stores like Fays, K Mart, Woolworths etc. that had outdoor rec...

Except that the small local B & M guy isn't setting his prices expecting you to be a "welfare service". He most likely is a small volume FFL whose prices reflect his operating costs. The prices he pays from his vendors most likely don't match what the high volume internet website guy pays. He...

People who expect the local guy to sell at a loss will ensure that there wont be a local guy. Oh, there will always be guys like me who do transfers, but the ability to walk through a door into a full service gun store...yeah, those days will be increasingly numbered if people routinely expect...

The reality is that the legal bean counters ensure that no one wants to be the test case to prove that the verbiage says what it says, and that the online vendor did nothing illegal. As has been pointed out, these companies are operating on razor thin margins. They don't want to add legal bills...

While I agree with you, the Cuomo administration said after they put the background check portion on hold that they considered the ban on home shipment of ammo to still be in place That's been enough to keep some sellers from being willing to ship ammo to NYS

There are some that reportedly do, but they aren't being publicly identified so as to not tip off Andy's goons. As for your local FFLs, find another option. You must have some table top FFLs who will work for you. I accept ammo shipments for my regulars without charging them anything, and ask...

My previous answer still stands. The dealer getting twenty bucks isn't going to keep the lights on for a full service brick and mortar store, and I've seen plenty of posts on gun forums over the years where posters think that's what an appropriate profit is for the store. Its fine for us...

You don't need to worry about giving your FFL the tracking numbers. They get their own email from Buds with all of that information, including the customers name and contact information.

I don't charge for private transfers at all, simply because I refuse to profit off the SAFE act as an FFL. I recall the politicians hooting it up that dealers should be happy that we would be making a whopping ten bucks off a private transfer. Guess they forgot about the 2000 lock law that...

NYC politicians should stick to worrying about NYC issues.

The on-line market causes people to expect to pay wholesale prices as their final retail price. Local gun stors cannot compete with the thin profit margin, low overhead places like Buds or Grabagun. As for the "fair" price of anything, see what I just wrote. People have come to expect that the...

In a city of eight million, true enough about people not in his immediate neighborhood. His neighbors are probably the ones he should worry about.

Same guy, different interview. Don't think I'd go on TV showing my preps. This guy isn't the only one that has done that.....

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I'm in Freeville, which pretty much is in the middle for both of you

Was given a link to the forum on another board. Life-long Upstate NY resident ( who will flee upon retirement, thanks Cuomo... ), 30 years LEO, 22 military, 25 years FFL. Always good to communicate with other gun owners stuck behind enemy lines....