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Firearm Transfers
Everything between “buy now” and walking out with it — what the sending dealer needs from us, what you bring on the day, and how the transfer, your fingerprints and your Form 4 can all happen in a single visit.
Purchase from any dealer, marketplace or private seller who ships to an FFL. Tell them your transfer dealer is HTX Gun Services / American Patriot Outdoors LLC in Houston.
Most dealers want a signed copy of our FFL before shipping. Have them email us, or call and we'll send it the same business day.
It arrives at our licensed premises and is logged into our bound book. We'll contact you when it lands.
Bring a valid government photo ID with your current Texas address. We run the background check through NICS.ATF Form 4473
On a proceed, and once all state and federal requirements are met, the transfer is complete. Delayed or denied results are determined by NICS, not by us.
Ship to American Patriot Outdoors LLC / HTX Gun Services, 430 S Texas 6 #204, Houston, TX 77079. Include the buyer's name inside the package so we can match it on arrival. Ask us for our signed FFL first — we send it the same business day.
Please don't have anything shipped before you've spoken to us. A package that arrives with no buyer name and no warning slows everyone down — a thirty-second call prevents it.
This is the part most people don't realise is possible. We hold a Type 07 FFL and a Class 2 SOT and we do fingerprinting in-house — so a single trip can cover the 4473 on your transfer, live-scan or FD-258 prints for an NFA application, and the Form 4 paperwork on a suppressor. Most Houston shops send you to three different places for that.
If you know you'll need prints, say so when you call and we'll have the scanner ready — see NFA fingerprinting and suppressor transfers.
We can receive firearms from private sellers in other states, which federal law requires to go through a licensed dealer. Same fee, same process. For in-state private sales Texas does not require a dealer at all — but plenty of people would rather not hand a firearm to a stranger on trust, so we run the 4473 and the NICS check and keep the record. That one is a private-party background check at $75, because the firearm is logged into our books and back out again.
Transfer fees
Houston transfer fees generally run $15–$50. We sit just under the market average. Buying the firearm from us instead? Browse HTXGUNS.com.
Call 832-488-3464 Book a timeShip to
American Patriot Outdoors LLC
430 S Texas 6 #204
Houston, TX 77079
Frequently asked
The paperwork takes about fifteen minutes. Most background checks return a proceed while you wait. A delay is issued by NICS and is out of our hands — federal law allows the transfer after three business days if there's still no response, at our discretion.
No. $35 for the first firearm regardless of type, $20 for each additional firearm in the same shipment.
Yes, and it saves you money — $35 covers the first, $20 each after that in the same shipment.
NICS makes that determination, not us. We cannot release the firearm on a denial. You can appeal directly with the FBI. The transfer fee covers work already performed and isn't refundable, and the firearm returns to the sender at your cost.
Yes — we hold a Class 2 SOT. Incoming NFA transfers are $85 per item, and $0 on NFA items bought through HTX Guns. See suppressor transfers.
Ready when you are
No booking forms. Reach us on either number, or email if you would rather put it in writing — attach your paperwork and we will read it before you arrive.
Reviews
Reviews go to our American Patriot Outdoors LLC Google profile — the same profile that helps Houston find us for fingerprinting, transfers and NFA work.