OK, so I sold a couple surplus handguns and did the transfer through The Firing line. They hit me up for the State's $6 right off the bat, we did the transfer and then laid on the transfer fee for two handguns was $30 a piece, $60 total. That's just shy of 10% of the sale, and the only skin they had in it was a few minutes of paperwork, and both guns went on the same form. Plus, the buyer stayed and shot the guns so they collected a range fee and probably sold some ammo too. I was looking at a Springfield 1911, with newly gotten cash in hand (a dangerous situation for me), that I was going to buy until the transfer fee amount came up.

I find $30 a transfer high for what they do to get it. We are stuck with the stupid private transfer law in CO, and charging outrageous fees for something we have to do takes advantage of law abiding citizens, 'gun people', the very people they who keep them in business. All the counter guy could say when I complained, is "some are higher, some are lower, we are right in the middle', and told me one of the big box stores charged $50. I thought it was interesting that the best defense he could come up with is comparing their shop with a big box store. I suppose that's only fair, since their new gun prices seem to be in line with what the big box stores charge.

That, and their percentage for consignments is 20%, which I think is pretty high as well.

I get it's a free market system and they can choose to charge whatever they want, just like we can choose to spend our money wherever we want.

Are their fees pretty typical for what shops charge in the Denver Metro area?

I've done all lf my transfers with Noah at Ark Tactical for the past few years, but I recently moved from Littleton to Aurora, within walking distance to The Firing Line.

I will make the drive to Ark Tactical to do all of my transactions and purchases from now on, and probably should have done it yesterday too. Those guys make you feel like family and I like doing business with them.

The Firing Line got me once, but they won't get me again.