Is it possible to buy a gun out of state of residence?
You can, but you have to have it transferred through a federally licensed dealer. If the stuff hits the fan however, I expect that most folks won’t give a crap, they’ll ship it directly to you no questions asked. It will be “to hell with government regulations.”
I believe all firearm transactions across state lines must go through an FFL to be legal.
I think the only exception to that is firearms that are willed to someone.
In many states, you can buy long guns from dealers in neighboring states, but not face-to-face transfers between individuals across state lines. Many dealers won’t do this because the transfer needs to be legal in both states and they don’t want to keep up with their own state laws and all the neighboring states.
You can get a Curio and Relics (C&R) license that lets you transfer firearms across state lines for your own collection, but it doesn’t let you do business as a dealer. This is limited to specific weapons designated C&R. These are older firearms, some common examples of C&R weapons are SKS, Mausers, and Mosin-Nagants.
To buy a gun from someone out of state, you buy the gun, the seller ships it to an FFL holder in your state. You go to the dealer fill out the 4473, pay a transfer fee and pick up your firearm.
Yes but it must be sent to someone in your state who has a federal firearms license...they run the background check and then you get possession of the handgun.