Truckee Municipal Code Ch. 5.04 Firearms Dealers

Except as provided in Penal Code Section 12078, it shall be unlawful for any person to sell, offer for sale, lease or transfer any firearm to another unless he or she is a dealer or the transaction is processed by a dealer pursuant to Penal Code Section 12082.

It is unlawful for any person to engage in the business of selling, leasing, transferring, advertising, offering, or exposing for sale, lease, or transfer of firearms unless he or she has been issued a firearms dealer's license by the Chief of Police.

Any person over the age of twenty-one (21) years who desires to become a firearms dealer shall apply to the Chief of Police as follows:

(a) Person shall submit an application for a firearms dealer's license;

(b) Person must possess a valid federal firearms license;

(c) Person will be required to abide by all requirements of Title II, Article 4 of the California Penal Code;

(d) Person shall be fingerprinted;

(e) Person must pay an application fee as set by resolution of the Town Council;

(f) Person must not he in a class of persons prohibited from possessing firearms by state law.

All firearms dealer's licenses shall be subject to approval by the Chief of Police, or designee.

Any license granted herein shall be valid for one (1) year from the date of issue. Applicant shall pay a fee as set by resolution of the Town Council for the renewal of said license, if eligible.

Any license granted herein shall be subject to forfeiture for failing to comply with the following conditions as contained in Penal Code Section 12071:

(a) Licensee's business shall be carried on in the building designated in the license, unless licensee is complying with Penal Code Section 12082 as it pertains to a gun show or qualified event.

(b) The license or copy thereof, certified by the issuing authority, shall be displayed on the premises where it can easily be seen.

(c) No firearm including, but not limited to, revolver, pistol, rifles or shotguns, shall be delivered:

1. Prior to a record check and clearance by the Department of Justice pursuant to Penal Code Section 12076;

2. Prior to the expiration of a fifteen (15) day waiting period pursuant to Penal Code Section 1207l(a)(3)(A), or as amended;

3. Unless unloaded and securely wrapped or unloaded and in a locked container;

4. Unless the purchaser or transferee either is personally known to the licensee or presents clear evidence of his or her identity and age;

5. Whenever the licensee is notified by the Department of Justice that the person is a prohibited class described in Penal Code Sections 12021 or 12021.1 or Welfare and Institutions Code Sections 8100 or 8103.

(d) No pistol, revolver or other firearm, or imitation thereof, capable of being concealed upon the person or placard advertising the sate or other transfer thereof, shall be displayed in any part of the premises where it can readily be seen from the outside.

(e) Licensee shall agree to and shall act properly in processing transfers of firearms pursuant to Section 12082 of the Penal Code.

(f) Licensee shall comply with Sections 12073, 12077 and subsections (a) and (b) of Section 12072 of the Penal Code.

Any person required to do so who does not obtain the license required by this chapter shall be guilty of an infraction, punishable.