Sus_scrofa wrote:To clear things up when buying interstate from QLD you (to my knowledge & experience) have to get the seller from the other state to take the firearm to their local dealer and get that dealer to send it to your local dealer. You then have to do the PTA as you will be acquiring the firearm off your local dealer. This process is done to write the firearm out of the disposing state and into the QLD register and then onto your licence via a PTA. My local dealer asks to get the PTA before they ship the gun to them which is understandable as they are providing a brokerage service not a storage service. Hope this clears thing up.
I've bought firearms from Qld, NSW, SA, and possibly other states. All I've done is pay for it, the seller takes it to his dealer who puts it on his dealer register and takes it off the owner's licence, then sends it to my dealer. When it arrives, he runs a permit for me and calls to tell me it's there, I go into town, sign his register transferring it to my licence, and bring it home.
One I bought from Qld the owner is overseas so his dad took the rifle to the dealer with the owner's licence details and that was all they required.
Buying from overseas is essentially the same, pay for it, apply for a B709 and PtA(s), send B709 to seller, they get the export permit and ship it to my dealer. He goes to Border Force with the original B709 to collect them onto his dealer register, then transfers them to my licence.