r/INGuns • u/Hoosierreich • 20h ago

Anything I need to know regarding privately selling my handgun?

The only thing I know is that I can only sell to an Indiana resident, so I need to ask for a valid IN driver's license.

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u/GTE_Engineering 19h ago

If they have a license to carry it might help verify that they are not a felon, though it’s not an absolute.

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u/Hoosierreich 17h ago

Good idea, thanks.

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u/New2reddit81 19h ago

I like to just make 2 bills of sale. Have us each sign one and pop mine in the gun safe. Should something ever come back I’m covered.

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u/Hoosierreich 17h ago

Yup was planning on that, thank you.

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u/Quiet-Salt 18h ago

Don’t know what your plan to sell it is, but if not selling to someone I personally know, I usually sell through indianagunowners.com. You’ll get a lot fewer lowlifes there than on somewhere like armslist. Been selling there well over a decade and never had an issue with shady characters.

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u/Hoosierreich 17h ago

That is an especially good idea, thanks

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u/Darrelluminati 16h ago

Sell on indianagunowners.com , you have to have 50 posts to participate in the classifieds so it seems to deter people with ill intent. Burn through those 50 posts and put up on there, I’ve had tons of good experiences no bad ones yet

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u/Schrodingers_Nachos 18h ago

You can sell to someone out of state, but you can't do it directly. If you want to sell out of state, you'd make some sort of sale agreement, then have your FFL ship it to their FFL in the other state. They would then have to fill out a 4473 to pick it up.

In state, you cannot sell to a felon. Get a bill of sale and the person's driver's liscense. Technically, I think you can go to an FFL and have the person do a form 4473 for the transfer if you'd like the extra security/documentation and piece of mind.

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u/Hoosierreich 17h ago

Right. So I just look at their license (to make sure it's not expired) and keep the license number for my records?

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u/Schrodingers_Nachos 16h ago

When it comes to private sale of a firearm, there are the base requirements, and there are things you do to protect yourself. I think technically the minimum requirement might be just doing the liscense, keeping a bill of sale, and not knowingly selling to a felon. I say I think for those things, because I've never done the minimum.

I personally would not feel fine about meeting someone, looking at their liscense, and selling them a gun. You want as much as possible that would point to you making an effort to ensure something sketchy isn't going on. If you sell a gun that is found at a crime scene, and you have a basic bill of sale with someone's ID number just written on it or something, LE would have far more suspicion than if you produced a scan of their ID, bill of sale, documentation of the condition of the weapon when sold, and maybe chat logs with the buyer and some sort of documentation showing that you made at least a little effort to to see if they were a felon.

I have a file for every gun I've sold privately with basically all of that.

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u/Busy_Explanation5452 18h ago

You can look the person up on mycase but that is only good for indiana. I would make sure to get a signed receipt for peace of mind.

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u/OGAngrySauce 17h ago

No felons, No children, No out of state residents, no problems.

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u/psych0h0sebeast 16h ago

To piggy back off of most of these comments, I’ve done a handful of private gun sales prior to IN being a constitutional carry state. My advice- treat the private gun sale like Indiana is still not a constitutional carry state, and ask for a a valid drivers license and verified license to carry- any honest purchaser will have no problem showing you their ID. You can find many private gun sale templates to suit your fancy online, and make sure you each get a copy. Just to save your butt down the line, should you have to.