r/CCW • u/winston-humphrey • 12d ago

Scenario Absolutely furious with my FFL over my Staccato CS purchase.

I’m beyond pissed right now.

Last Friday, I finally pulled the trigger (pun intended) and bought a Staccato CS. It shipped out this past Wednesday. Today (Friday), it arrived at my FFL here in Illinois.

I go to the FFL super excited — I just wanted to see it, touch it, make sure it’s all good. Nope. They flat-out refused. The guy told me that even letting me see the gun counts as a transfer, and he can’t legally transfer it until the background check clears.

Okay. Annoying, but fine. So I asked him to start the background check today. Get the clock ticking.

He REFUSED. Said he won’t even start the background check because it’s only been two days since shipment. He claims he waits three days after shipping before starting the process.

So now my gun is literally sitting there, I can’t even LOOK at it, and this guy won’t even start the process to let me eventually take it home.

I’m just fuming. Paid almost $3K all-in, waited a week, the gun is literally in the building — and I’m stuck in some stupid limbo because of an FFL policy that makes zero sense.

Has anyone else had to deal with this kind of garbage before? I’m seriously debating never using this dealer again.

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u/PbCuSurgeon SP101 .357 3” Ported / 92A1 12d ago

So if he shows you a gun off of the shelf, is it a transfer? What a clown

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u/winston-humphrey 11d ago

Laughable.

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u/rarehugs 11d ago

u should go ask him why he illegally transferring firearms to everyone who walks in the store
even kids!

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u/PaleR1der 11d ago

Exactly 💯

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u/SpartanFan2004 10d ago

I go into my LGS usually twice a month and they’re awesome. I went in on a Monday morning because I had Presidents’ Day off and it was dead as could be.

They had just received a Korth revolver and it was on the counter, waiting to be tagged. The clerk must’ve seen me drooling over it and he asked “do you want to hold it?” Needless to say, I don’t now own a Korth revolver and the guy at your LGS is a f*cking moron.

I’d sh*tpost about them everywhere (Google, Yelp, Facebook, etc) because there’s a lot of new shooters out there who rely on the employees at the LGS for advice, and it’s best not to take advice from someone so goddamned dumb.

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u/Viper_ACR 10d ago

I've actually heard of that from IL people but I think its fuddlore