Quote from: dscotese on May 20, 2014, 07:52:27 PM

Just saw this in the email I get from Liberty Crier: http://2013-tx36.congressnewsletter.net/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100116310.36929.678

So I thought I'd ask if anyone heard of (or is) a gun enthusiast who has asked a gun retailer whether or not they accept bitcoin. Seems like a natural fit.

American here, from my experiences non-big box gun stores prefer cash or a USPS money order. Most will charge you a 3% fee if you choose to pay with credit card. I'm sure they could be talked in to accepting bitcoin if you were buying enough from them, but most small stores are going to pass the fees on to the user directly. Chargebacks aren't much of a problem for them, because with the 4473 forms people fill out when they buy a gun from a FFL, it is pretty easy to show a credit card company that the recipient actually received the weapon. And the pseudo-anonimity bitcoin offers isnt a benefit for the recipient because you have to fill out the 4473 mentioned previously, which is ultimately entered in to the ATF's eTrace database (and shared with 120+ foreign nations).

Buying from a private party is almost always in cash, and you could only use bitcoin if the other guy knows about it and wants it; and most probably don't know what it is yet, or if they do, they probably dont care about it.

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Quote from: HDSolar on May 22, 2014, 04:03:13 PM

Why not check out www.uspatriotarmory.com, they may not sell complete weapons but still an 80% weapon with a jig and no registration for BTC sounds cool and good to me. Just saying,

Except most people dont have access to a mill. And dont even try to bring up a drill press, because everyone i've ever met who has never tried it with a drill press, and dont realize that the bearings in them arent designed to take side loads like a mill. Or a dremel either, I've seen plenty of pics of polymer 80% lowers which were butchered with a dremel, I can only imagine what a aluminum lower would look like after someone was done with it. Instead of all this hassle, if you really want to avoid signing a 4473, you can buy a 100% lower for less money in a private party sale.

Quote from: kuusj98 on May 22, 2014, 02:48:19 PM

How would you verify if people have a gun licence? I mean, I don't know how it goes in other country's but here in NL we have to have licences for such things.

Most states in the US dont require a license. And there is no non-felon verification requirement (NCIS) for private party sales in most states.