Michigan Complications
The one problem I have in Michigan is if I am on vacation and I happen upon some interesting Luger way up in the upper penninsula (UP), I have to leave a deposit with the individual who is selling the gun and then go all the way home to get a permit which has about a 10 day wait (for me, but in some communities it could take 30 days) and then I have to go all the way up north to pay for the gun and have the individual sign the purchase permit then come all the way home to show the gun to the police to get the actual gun permit. This all must occur within ten days of my taking the gun permit from the hands of the clerk at the police department. If the selling individual is an individual then this would be the procedure. If the individual is a licensed FFL dealer (not a C&R FFL holder), then the federal wait period gets involved.
I live in the Detroit area. So, depending on just where in the UP I purchase the gun, I could have a possible nine hour plus drive one way to the seller. Mailing might not be practical because of the 10 day limit from the time I pick up the purchase permit to the time I have to show the actual gun to the police department to get my actual permit.
Big Norm
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