Transfer terms

National Safety Center LLC holds a Federal Firearms License and receives firearms shipped to us by other licensed dealers on behalf of the person who bought them. These terms cover that service: receiving your firearm, holding it, completing the federal and Florida paperwork with you, and handing it to you.

They apply from the moment you name National Safety Center as your receiving dealer, and you confirm them when you pay the transfer fee. If you do not agree with them, tell the seller to ship to another dealer before the firearm leaves them.

The firearm is your property throughout. We hold it for you; we never own it, and nothing here is a sale by us.

The transfer fee is $30 for each firearm we receive for you. It is due before the firearm is released, and you may pay it online through the link we email you or at the counter.

The fee covers receiving the firearm, entering it in our federal records, completing ATF Form 4473 with you, submitting the Florida background check, and the hand-over. It does not cover storage beyond the pickup window, return shipping, or anything the seller charges you.

Once a firearm has arrived and been entered in our records the fee is earned and is not refunded, including where the transfer cannot be completed for a reason on your side. If the seller never ships, nothing is charged, and any fee already paid is refunded in full.

Federal law requires ATF Form 4473 to be completed at our premises, by you, in person. Florida requires a background check through the Florida Department of Law Enforcement before we may hand over a firearm. We complete both with you when you come in.

Bring a current government-issued photo identification showing your present address. If the address on it is not current, bring a second government document that shows it.

Florida applies a waiting period of 3 days between the sale of a handgun and its delivery, counted in business days, and a local ordinance may extend it. Unless you hold a current Florida concealed weapon licence or another exemption applies, you will make two visits: one to complete the paperwork, and one after the waiting period to collect.

You must be legally allowed to receive and possess a firearm. We may decline to complete a transfer we believe would be unlawful, and we may decline to release a firearm to anybody other than the buyer named by the seller. Our decision on the day is final.

If the background check is denied, or is not resolved within the time the law allows, or you decide not to proceed, we return the firearm to the seller. Return shipping, the seller’s own charges and any restocking fee are yours, and the transfer fee is not refunded.

While a return is being arranged the firearm stays in our safe and the pickup and storage terms below continue to apply.

You must come in to complete the paperwork within 7 days of our arrival notice, and collect the firearm as soon as the waiting period allows. The waiting period is added to the window, so it never counts against you.

Our notice is an email to the address you gave us, or a call to the number you gave us where there is no email. It is your responsibility to keep those details current with us and with the seller.

After the pickup window, storage of $30 is charged for each month, or part of a month, that the firearm remains uncollected. Storage is due before the firearm is released, together with any unpaid transfer fee.

If 90 days pass after our notice without the transfer being completed and without an arrangement with us in writing, we may, after written notice to your last known address, return the firearm to the seller at your cost or deal with it as Florida law permits, and apply anything recovered first to the fees and storage owed.

You are responsible for insuring your firearm from the moment the seller ships it until you take it home. We do not insure it for you, and our own insurance does not cover your property.

We are not liable for loss of, theft of, or damage to the firearm in transit, on delivery, or while it is on our premises, to the fullest extent Florida law allows. Where the law does not allow that exclusion, our liability to you for any claim connected with this service is limited to the transfer fee you paid.

A claim for damage or shortage in shipping is between you, the seller and the carrier. We will note visible damage to the package when it arrives and give you what we observed, and we will hold the firearm for you while you resolve it, under the storage terms above.

We check that what arrived matches the description and serial number the seller reported and we record those in our federal records. We do not test or inspect the firearm for function, condition or fitness, and a difference between what you ordered and what arrived is a matter for you and the seller.

Items regulated under the National Firearms Act, unless arranged with us in writing before shipment.

A firearm that is unlawful to possess in Florida, or that is shipped by anyone other than a federally licensed dealer, unless arranged with us in writing before shipment.

Anything shipped to us without your name and the seller’s order number on the paperwork. A package we cannot match to a customer is refused or returned.

We keep the records federal law requires a licensed dealer to keep: the acquisition and disposition record and the completed ATF Form 4473. We keep your name and contact details so we can reach you about this transfer. We keep no list of what you own beyond those federal records, and we do not sell or share your details.

These terms are dated 2026-09-06. The version you accepted when you paid is the version that applies to your transfer, and we keep a record of which one that was.

Questions before you ship? Call us on (407) 479-3790 or write to Support@NationalSafetyCenter.com. It is always easier to answer them before the box is on its way.