To buy a handgun in Clark County, you need to be at least 21 years of age, be a Nevada resident WITH A NEVADA STATE ISSUED ID CARD OR DRIVERS' LICENSE with your CURRENT Nevada address on it, and have a clean criminal background. We are currently stuck with the STATE 'brady TAX' of $25 .00 and investigation on ALL gun purchases or transfers. Holders of a current Nevada Concealed Firearms Permit ISSUED AFTER JULY 1, 2011 are exempt from the brady tax and check. If you have a Nevada Concealed Firerms Permit ISSUED BEFORE JULY 1, 2011, you will be required to pay the brady tax and undergo a background check. You will need to complete the federal 4473 form. If you are buying 2 or more handguns in ANY five consecutive business day period, the dealer will also fill out a 'Multiple pistol report form' complete with serial numbers and send it to the ATF for inclusion in the federal records.

If you are a resident alien, you will need to provide your INS ID ('green card') as well as receipts or other documents such as paycheck stubs, rent receipts, utility bills matching your drivers' license address, bank statments or any other papers that will establish that you have lived here for the last 4 months.

Clark county is the only county in the state to have a gun registration scheme. We have been stuck with this *&#&%@(# law that does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING good and serves only to violate our privacy since the 'feel good, warm and fuzzy' anti-gun, anti-Constitution laws were being passed in the thirties, so the sheriff could keep track of the guns Bugsy Seagal bought. When you buy a handgun, county registration forms are filled out and you will have to wait for a three day time wasting period before you can have your gun. At this time you will be given a 'blue card' gun registration card. At any later date, that blue card will keep you from having to wait for the three day period again. Also, if you have a Nevada concealed weapons permit, you will not have to wait for the three day waste of your time period or submit to the backround form, check or TAX ONLY IF YOUR CCW PERMIT WAS ISSUED AFTER JULY 1, 2011. (NO, out of state permits do not qualify for this exemtion!) With the 'blue card,' you will still have to undergo filling out a background form and check and pay the Brady TAX to the state, which MAY let you pick up your handgun at the time of purchase, or it my delay you for as long as seven days while they complete this background check. If you are turned down on your background check, you may appeal this with the Highway Patrol, who does the background checks. If you are NOT a resident of Clark County, you will NOT have to submit to the three day bugsy seagal wait, need a blue card or have your handgun registered.

In order to buy a rifle or shotgun, you may be from Nevada or many other states (NO, NOT CALIFORNIA SO DON'T ASK!). The only form needing to be completed is the federal 4473 form and submitting to a brady check and TAX. EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 30, 1998, YOU HAVE TO SUBMIT TO THE BRADY BACKROUND FORM, CHECK AND PAY THE BRADY TAX ON ALL GUNS, INCLUDING RIFLES AND SHOTGUNS!!!!! You will need to be 18 or over and have the same clean criminal background. Rifles and shotguns may be taken with you at the time of the sale, unless delayed by the brady crap.

IF YOU PAWN YOUR GUNS, YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO COMPLETE THE BRADY BACKROUND CHECK AND PAY THE 'TAX' TO GET YOUR OWN GUN BACK!!!! MAKE SURE YOU LET GOOD OL' HARRY REID KNOW HOW YOU LIKE THIS ONE!!!

IMPORTANT NOTICE!!!! AS OF NOVEMBER 30, 1998, ALL FIREARMS INCLUDING RIFLES AND SHOTGUNS ARE SUBJECT TO THE BRADY TAX AND BACKROUND CHECK!!! YOU MAY HAVE TO WAIT FOR UP TO SEVEN DAYS BEFORE YOU CAN PICK UP YOUR LONG GUN AS WELL!! THIS WILL ALSO INCLUDE ALL PAWNED GUNS!!! IF YOU ARE AS UPSET AS THE REST OF US AT THIS ABSURDITY, CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS AND REMEMBER TO ASK THOSE THAT HAVED ASKED YOU FOR YOUR VOTE HOW THEY STAND ON THE BRADY TAX AND HAVING TO ASK BIG BROTHER FOR "PERMISSION" TO EXERCISE YOUR GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS!!! LET THEM ALSO KNOW YOU WILL NOT VOTE FOR ANY POLITICIAN THAT VOTES FOR THIS CRAP!! ALSO BE ADVISED THAT WHILE GCA 68 AND GUN OWNERS PROTECTION ACT OF 86 PROHIBIT BATF FROM COMPILING ANY LIST OR REGISTRATION OF GUN OWNERS, THE FBI, WHO WILL BE DOING MOST OF THE CHECKS IN MANY STATES, IS NOT PROHIBITED FROM COMPILING THESE LISTS. THEY HAVE STATED THAT THEY WILL BE È KEEPING LISTS OF ALL GUN BUYERS FOR A MINIMUM OF 18 MONTHS. ANY ONE WHO HAS UNDERGONE THIS BACKROUND CHECK WILL FOREVER HAVE HIS/HER NAME FLAGGED IN THE COMPUTERS OF THE GOVERNMENT AS A 'GUN OWNER'!!!!

If you have become a 'de facto' registered gun owner with a Nevada Concealed Weapons Permit, you will STLL have to complete a Brady form, pay the brady TAX and undergo a new backround check IF IT WAS ISSUED BEFORE JULY 1, 2011. Unfortunately, we lost our exemption due to the games played by Assemblyman Bernie Anderson (D) Sparks, and the rest of the legislature that left us with a 'deficient' CCW law, per BATFE. We got the two words added to our CCW laws to regain our exemption, but it was only granted by the BATF for CCW's issued July 1, 2011 and after, so we get taxed again, and again, and again, and again......it never ends. BUT - on the brighter side of things, Bernie has been term limited out of office, and the 2011 session fixed many of these problems!

The 'criminal background' requirements include not only felonies, but certain misdemeanors such as stalking and domestic violence. If you have ANY convictions, you will not be able to purchase ANY TYPE OF FIREARM. Depending on the location of the felony, it MAY Êbe possible to have your record sealed and have your civil rights restored. This will partly depend on the type of crime, how long ago it was and whether the state it occurred in allows for firearms purchase with restored civil rights. CHECK WITH YOUR ATTORNEY FOR MORE INFORMATION IN THIS MATTER!

Transfers for dealers, please check with the show promoter for current requirements