[ctdonath2]

A Type 03 lets you buy and sell "curios and relics", but without such volume as can be considered "dealing". I can get >50 year old guns, and guns with exotic histories, shipped to my door ... but not new mass-produced guns.

[tacticalogic]

A Type 03 lets you buy and sell "curios and relics", but without such volume as can be considered "dealing". I can get >50 year old guns, and guns with exotic histories, shipped to my door ... but not new mass-produced guns.

So there's considerable more to it than just "A Type 03 license allows you to buy firearms".

Any idea what "service" a retail gun dealer provides to a customer that knows what he wants and why, and doesn't need any hand-holding about it, that's worth the markup?