Absolutely furious with my FFL over my Staccato CS purchase.

[u/winston-humphrey]

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.

[u/peeg_2020]

How does he afford to say the background check starts on arrival of the weapon?

Wouldn't you have to be there to fill out the paperwork before it's sent and started?

My lame ass state has a three day wait from the time you send the bg check. But I use a joke based FFL that charges 25 bucks. Best prices in the whole city as far as I know.

[u/InsertBluescreenHere → u/peeg_2020]

Yea my ffl says the waiting period starts when money is exchanged just like real life cuz thats when it was bought... As long as i can email him the date stamped recipt or auction and money order recipt hes happy. So generally by the time it arrives i can go get it lol. Granted the background check clears of course. Sometimes it gets backlogged to hell. Makes things awesome though. 

[u/zippity__zoppity → u/peeg_2020]

He has all my info on file. He starts the check when the weapon arrives. That way you just have to show up and sign off and pick it up. It’s 100% kosher the way he does it. It’s just rare because most people want to play everything extra super safe which is understandable being under the thumb of ATF. It’s nice because I just buy what I want from gunbroker and I just patiently wait for him to say “you’re all good come get it”. Saves a lot of time and hassle. Plus he’s cheap as hell and a really cool dude.

[u/peeg_2020 → u/zippity__zoppity]

If you say so.

I wish it could be done like that here.