02

Getting a federal firearms license

A license is issued to a person, for a business, at a place — and the application is where all three are fixed. This chapter walks the path from eligibility to a license in hand, and then to keeping it from lapsing.

In this chapter

• +Who may hold a license, and the disqualifications that decide it before anything else
• +What the application costs, what it must contain, and how long the license runs
• +Which locations one license reaches, and what to do before it expires