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Review Farwest Photography

Website
https://farwestffl.com/
Location
701 Aldo Ave #51, Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA
Region
  1. NorCal
Sub-Region
Bay Area
Price
5.00 star(s)
Value
5.00 star(s)
Services offered
    1. 🤝 PPT
    2. 📝 FSC Test
    3. 📦 Ammo Transfer
    4. 🚚 FFL Transfer
PPT
  1. Appointments Available
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Many perfect transactions with David through out the years, heartily recommended!
 
I did a transfer here and cannot recommend it and would try to avoid it if possible. The guy is nice enough in person, however, communication was difficult, he was late to my appointment and overbooked his other appointments, so the process takes way longer than necessary with all the waiting around.
 
He took and sold 5 guns from my nephew, over a no decision.
He already owned the guns, paid him to store them for a year. Told my nephew he had to run the dros to get them back again, came back no decision. Wouldnt give him back his guns, sold them.
Pass, I do alot of business with shops all over, he is on my short list of I will never do business with ever places

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Jeffro_510 said:
He took and sold 5 guns from my nephew, over a no decision.
He already owned the guns, paid him to store them for a year. Told my nephew he had to run the dros to get them back again, came back no decision. Wouldnt give him back his guns, sold them.
Pass, I do alot of business with shops all over, he is on my short list of I will never do business with ever places
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That's F-ed up. Farwest doing shady stuff possibly to make up for its income loss due to either failure in photography or ffl'ing. I have my own negative reservations about Farwest, but it was not on the FFL'ing side.
 
Of course if I had known before hand, I would have had him transfer them to me. Then go to a different ffl and get them back to him.
Nephew told me all of this after the fact
 
Jeffro_510 said:
Of course if I had known before hand, I would have had him transfer them to me. Then go to a different ffl and get them back to him.
Nephew told me all of this after the fact
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Not to thread crap, but reasons like this makes it hard for me specifically do business with an FFL that has more than a gun business. They'll always have a need to try and fulfill the other business in-addition to guns, which leads to shady 💩 as shown here. The focus of the FFL won't be primarily on guns. I'd rather find a master than a jack of trades, in this case, jacking stuff from customers in their trade.
 
I have no experience with this FFL or with firearm storage in general, but I was curious after seeing the comments here and spent a couple of minutes looking up storage rules and regulations. From the little I found, it seems like dealers might be required to legally transfer firearms into and out of their posession for storage purposes. Unless I'm reading the code wrong (which is very possible), it seems that they're definitely required to do so if the person storing the firearms did so as a result of prohibitions on ownership of some sort at the very least:

Penal Code 29830 - TRO Transfers
ATF Letter - FFL Firearm Storage

Also, out of genuine curiosity, if someone failed a DROS, how would a third party taking posession and going to a different FFL help at all?
 
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Jeffro_510 said:
He took and sold 5 guns from my nephew, over a no decision.
He already owned the guns, paid him to store them for a year. Told my nephew he had to run the dros to get them back again, came back no decision. Wouldnt give him back his guns, sold them.
Pass, I do alot of business with shops all over, he is on my short list of I will never do business with ever places
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I havent sold anyones guns over a denial. I have no idea what you mean. Please contact me over this because I have no clue what this is about.
 
robotron said:
I did a transfer here and cannot recommend it and would try to avoid it if possible. The guy is nice enough in person, however, communication was difficult, he was late to my appointment and overbooked his other appointments, so the process takes way longer than necessary with all the waiting around.
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I also have a day job. and yes sometimes I have double booked people due to one person asking for a time and not repsonding to me and i gave tthat time to another person. I try my best to only schedule with confirmation.
 
BR1911380 said:
I have no experience with this FFL or with firearm storage in general, but I was curious after seeing the comments here and spent a couple of minutes looking up storage rules and regulations. From the little I found, it seems like dealers might be required to legally transfer firearms into and out of their posession for storage purposes. Unless I'm reading the code wrong (which is very possible), it seems that they're definitely required to do so if the person storing the firearms did so as a result of prohibitions on ownership of some sort at the very least:

Penal Code 29830 - TRO Transfers
ATF Letter - FFL Firearm Storage

Also, out of genuine curiosity, if someone failed a DROS, how would a third party taking posession and going to a different FFL help at all?
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I havent sold anyones TRO guns to anyone. I have quite a few in storage form people here. ATF has looked them over and all are in the books. I cant legally sell anything to anyone on a TRO storage.
 
So Farwest contacted me about this post.
Apparently my nephew didnt do all he could do, and Farwest has NOT sold any of my nephews guns.
I am going to work on getting them back for him.
Thanks for reaching out.
 
Jeffro_510 said:
So Farwest contacted me about this post.
Apparently my nephew didnt do all he could do, and Farwest has NOT sold any of my nephews guns.
I am going to work on getting them back for him.
Thanks for reaching out.
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I would strongly advise you go back and edit your post(s) on the topic to include at the bottom a disclaimer in bold font that you were wrong and this did not happen.

I would say just delete but the original wording will still appear in any responses so best to leave it and add in a disclaimer. I'd even suggest changing the font to strikethrough on the original verbiage.
 
NedSled said:
I would strongly advise you go back and edit your post(s) on the topic to include at the bottom a disclaimer in bold font that you were wrong and this did not happen.

I would say just delete but the original wording will still appear in any responses so best to leave it and add in a disclaimer. I'd even suggest changing the font to strikethrough on the original verbiage.
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They don’t have the ability to edit but we will adjust it and make it known as a strikethrough out of fairness
 
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