To follow up on the idea proposed here, if you did set up a competing table to the LEOs and city mopes, regardless of the location, is there anyone here who does not think that a case would be made by the city that the competing table was a de facto business and therefore required to process NCIS checks through an FFL? If the LEOs are conducting a "program" (i.e., a periodic business) to collect guns, then consider:
- Place of business - a single or small number of locations to conduct the business
- Advertising the business
- Paid staff (in the case of the city program)
- Indiscriminate purchasing any any firearm brought in
The only saving grace for the competing table would be to reject some/many of the guns as not collectible, thereby establishing a basis for it being a true private sale.
State laws may vary, Federal laws do not.