Compliance and eligibility in Texas

Age limits

This shop is a licensed dealer in the state of Texas, so federal age law applies at the counter. A handgun, a handgun frame or a handgun receiver may be transferred by a licensed dealer only to a buyer aged 21 or over. A rifle or a shotgun may be transferred to a buyer aged 18 or over. Parts, slides, triggers and accessories that are not themselves a firearm may be sold to a buyer aged 18 or over.

You are asked to confirm your age before an order can be submitted. That confirmation is not the check. Age is verified against government issued photographic identification in person, before anything is handed over.

Prohibited persons

Federal law at 18 U.S.C. section 922(g) bars certain people from receiving or possessing a firearm. The categories include a person convicted of a crime punishable by more than one year in prison, a fugitive from justice, an unlawful user of a controlled substance, a person adjudicated as mentally defective or committed to a mental institution, a person subject to a qualifying protective order, a person convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, and a person who is unlawfully in the United States. If any of those apply to you, you cannot lawfully buy a firearm here. Making a false statement on the federal transaction record is itself a felony.

The background check

Every firearm transfer from this dealer runs through ATF Form 4473, the federal firearms transaction record, completed by the buyer at the counter. The dealer then queries the FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). The system returns proceed, delay or deny. The firearm is released only on a proceed result. A delay result means the transfer waits until the check is resolved.

Texas does not operate a separate state check. It defers to the federal system, and it adds no state purchase permit, no state waiting period and no state firearm registry. Do not read that as a shortcut: the federal check still happens on every transfer, every time.

Buying from outside Texas

Federal law limits a licensed dealer to selling a handgun face to face only to a resident of the dealer's own state. If you live outside Texas and you buy a handgun here, it is shipped to your dropoff location in your state and you complete the transfer there, under the rules of your state. A rifle or a shotgun may be sold to an out of state resident where the sale is lawful in both states.

Your local law still governs you

Texas does not restrict magazine capacity, does not maintain an approved handgun roster and does not impose an assault weapon ban. Many other states do. An item appearing in this catalogue is not a statement that it is legal where you live. Checking the law of your own city and state is your responsibility, and this shop refuses any order it cannot lawfully complete.

How a firearm reaches you

We ship to your dropoff location. For firearms, your dropoff location must be a Federal Firearms Licensee, and the buyer completes the transfer in person at that licensee's premises. At the counter the buyer presents a valid government issued photo ID showing their current residential address, completes ATF Form 4473, and the licensee runs a background check through the FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System. The firearm is released only on a proceed result. Texas imposes no state waiting period, no purchase permit and no state registration, so a proceed result normally means the transfer completes the same day. Federal law limits handgun sales by a licensed dealer to residents of that dealer's state, so a handgun bought by an out of state customer is shipped to a licensee in the customer's own state and transferred there.

The full route, including who pays which fee, is set out in the shipping and transfer policy.

Orders this shop will not fill

• Any address that is not a Federal Firearms Licensee, for any complete firearm
• Any jurisdiction where the specific model, magazine capacity or feature is unlawful
• Outside the United States, unless an export licence is issued in writing for that order

Export

Firearms and many firearm parts are export controlled under United States law. Nothing in this catalogue is offered for export unless this shop states so in writing for that specific order, with the licences that permit it.

This page is not legal advice

This page describes how the shop operates and summarises the rules it works under. It is a summary, not legal advice about your own position, and the law changes. If you are unsure whether you may lawfully buy or possess an item, speak to an attorney or to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives before you order.

Reporting a problem with a listing

If you believe a listing on this site is inaccurate or should not be offered in your state, tell the shop through the contact form and it will be reviewed.