NO! Unless you are a dealer, or state law requires, you are not getting a copy of our FFL. You can legally ship for repairs or transfer to an FFL holder under Federal law. If you choose to have an FFL holder ship the gun, the dealers will exchange licenses. GunBroker has a clause about the seller getting a copy of FFL’s, but we will not send one except to another dealer. Funny things happen with licenses floating around, even when marked “File Copy”, and clearly a copy.
Had a gun trace once were the gun was shown received by us from a basement dealer. No record of the gun, and no license on file. No out for the gun. Turns out under audit, this guy had a handfull of other shop licenses, from one customer, but did a face to face handover of several guns with no 4473. None of the other shops had his FFL. Complete fraud.
Last year, of 3000 transfers, 10% were non-4473. If you have a question of the dealers standing or viability, go to ATF and use EZ-CHECK.
And if you want to make it easy on the receiving FFL, include a clear copy of your state ID.