Transferring a firearm to MoreauWorks - especially from any large online retailer such as Gunbroker or Guns.com - is a pretty straightforward process.

PLEASE FIND A WAY ATTACH YOUR NAME ON THE SHIPPING LABEL. This is how we can easily identify packages.

Typically, the process for online purchases is as follows:

1. Pick the firearm you plan to purchase on whichever website you are on.
2. In the checkout process, there is typically a list, a map, or some sort of directory to search MoreauWorks up on.
3. After selecting MoreauWorks as the receiving FFL, finish the checkout process and the order should be sent to us automatically. If the vendor requires a copy of our paperwork - feel free to grab the PDF from the website and upload or email it to them.

The process for transferring a firearm from a storefront to MoreauWorks is mostly a straightforward process. Some gun stores want nothing to do with California and wont ship a firearm to MoreauWorks. You can either find another gun store or use Shipmygun.com. This is typically done for intrafamilial transfers. Check out the intrafamilial transfer tab for more info.

Some gun stores and online vendors are very risk adverse. They may not send firearms or modify firearms to make them California compliant. We offer a middleman service to get around this. Check out the middleman service tab for more info

Typically, the process for a storefront transfer is as follows:

1. Pick the firearm you plan to purchase from the store.
2. Confirm with the store they ship to California.
3. Contact MoreauWorks or give the gun store a copy of our FFL. Some stores require the receiving dealer to send the paperwork.
4. Firearm should be sent to us after gun store receives our FFL.

Once the firearm is received, come in to do the background check.

Transferring ammo to MoreauWorks - especially from any large online retailer such as Velocity and AE Ammo - is a pretty straightforward process.

PLEASE FIND A WAY ATTACH YOUR NAME ON THE SHIPPING LABEL. This is how we can easily identify packages.

Typically, the process for online purchases is as follows:

1. Pick the ammo you plan to purchase on whichever website you are on.
2. In the checkout process, there is typically a list, a map, or some sort of directory to search MoreauWorks up on.
3. After selecting MoreauWorks as the receiving FFL, finish the checkout process and the order should be sent to us automatically. If the vendor requires a copy of our paperwork - feel free to grab the PDF from the website and upload or email it to them.

Once the ammo is received, come in to do the background check..

Intrafamilial transfers are similar to normal firearm transfers, just with some added steps.

For the legalese, transfer and gift are used interchangeably.  

To recap, intrafamilial transfers can occur between 'direct' decedents - in the sense that it is up and down. For example; everyone in the following list can transfer to each parent or child, but not sibling or partnership. Grandmother, grandfather, mother, father, son, daughter. So grandmother can transfer to grand daughter, mother can transfer to son. But mother cannot transfer to father (married couples, etc), nor can son transfer to daughter (no sibling transfers). Cousins, uncles, nieces, nephews, and the like are unable to transfer if those are their roles in the family.

This is typically one of the popular routes to obtain off-roster handguns.

PLEASE FIND A WAY ATTACH YOUR NAME ON THE SHIPPING LABEL. This is how we can easily identify packages.

Typically, the process for an intrafamilial transfer is as follows:

1. Confirm with direct family member that they are able and willing to perform the transfer.
2. Once the firearm has been acquired, a letter of gift must be generated. We made our own template such as this one here:  Letter of Gift Template
3. Package the firearm unloaded and with no live ammo, include the filled out letter of gift and ship it out.

The process for transferring a firearm from a storefront to MoreauWorks is mostly a straightforward process. Some gun stores want nothing to do with California and wont ship a firearm to MoreauWorks. You can either find another gun store or use Shipmygun.com.

Once the firearm is received, come in to do the background check.

Middleman transfers are similar to normal firearm transfers, just with some added steps. Our middleman is Wojtek Weaponry

Middleman services exist to bring firearms that are not California compliant into California. The way this process works is the firearm in question gets shipped to our middleman who converts the firearm into a California compliant version. This compliant version gets sent to us, and the background check is done as normal. This is done this way because California considers assault weapons as 'untouchable' if it enters the state as an assault weapon. The firearm must enter California in a compliant configuration.

Pricing for middleman services is a bit different than just transfer fees. Middleman-ing a firearm requires coordination and multiple shipments. If the firearm to be middleman is ordered directly from MoreauWorks, there is no additional surcharge. However, if the parts and labor to configure the firearm for compliances are excessive ; for example, if a pin and weld and a longer muzzle device are required, then the cost of that is charged. If the firearm to be middleman is not ordered directly from MoreauWorks, say from Gunbroker instead, a $150 dollar transfer fee, parts and labor, will be charged.

This is typically done with only long guns. Middleman transfers do not get around the handgun roster.

Typically, the process for a direct order middleman transfer is as follows:

1. Pick the firearm you plan to purchase from MoreauWorks and pay for it.
2. The firearm is ordered with the shipping addressed to Wojtek Weaponry.
3. Wojtek Weaponry receives the firearm and makes it compliant. They then ship it to MoreauWorks

Typically, the process for a middleman firearm not ordered from MoreauWorks is as follows:

1. Pick the firearm you plan to purchase on whichever website you are on.
2. Confirm with Wojtek Weaponry that they can middle man the firearm.
3. In the checkout process, there is typically a list, a map, or some sort of directory to search Wojtek Weaponry up on.
4. After selecting Wojtek Weaponry as the receiving FFL, finish the checkout process and the order should be sent to them automatically. If the vendor requires a copy of their paperwork - feel free to reach out to Wojtek Weaponry.

Sometimes, online vendors do not ship out firearms when the billing and shipping addresses are in different states. If that is the case, reach out to Wojtek Weaponry to have them purchase the firearm directly.

Once the firearm is received, come in to do the background check. 

MoreauWorks must collect 8.75% sales tax and the 11% FET as applicable. If the purchaser has already paid sales tax and the FET, MoreauWorks will not collect taxes again.

Law Enforcement sales must pay the 11% FET at MoreauWorks as applicable.

Yes, MoreauWorks releases on undetermined. MoreauWorks still reserves the right to release firearms at our discretion.

Blocked magazines refer to the magazines MoreauWorks sells that have been permanently modified with a block and/or rivet to hold 10 rounds or less. The blocked magazine starts out as high capacity magazines. No springs are cut, walls are not crimped, nor is epoxy used at any point in the process.

Single Shot is the method in which we manufacture off roster, roster exempt firearms. Single shot is achieved buy using a .25 ACP barrel liner or similar caliber, or installing parts that make it operate in break action only. Single shot means that the pistol must be only able to shoot a single round. In order to reload the pistol, is must 'break apart'. For AR pistols, this is achieved by plugging the lower receiver such that the BCG cannot cycle. In order to shoot and reload the AR pistol, you would have to remove the upper from the lower, remove the BCG, remove the spent casing, load the new round with the BCG, and reattach the upper to the lower. For .25 ACP single shot firearms, the barrel liner is placed in the ID of a barrel. To operate the firearm in .25 ACP requires dissembling the firearm to load a round in the barrel and line up the extractor. The recoil of .25 ACP is too weak to cycle the action.

For Firearms and Ammo: All sales are final, no exemptions. If you fail a background check for being a Prohibited Person, absolutely no exemptions. If you start DROS on a firearm and cancel within the 10 days, a $150 dollar processing fee to close the transaction will be due. If the DROS is canceled and it is for a transfer, transfer fees and DROS will not be returned.

For Blocked Magazines: if a magazine or its blocking is determined to be defective, we will swap out the magazine with a new blocked one for free, or re-block the affected magazine for free. Refunds or Returns will not be issued for magazines holding 9 or 11 rounds, etc.

For Work and Labor: If you change your mind for work and the firearm has not yet been worked on, you may ask for a refund and return. If no work has been done except disassembly, labor will be charged for disassembly/reassembly. If your firearm has been worked on, is in the middle of being worked on, and/or parts have been ordered and received, the project will continue until completion. If the situation arises where the customer demands their firearm back in the middle of work, a refund on the incomplete items will be issued, parts and labor will be charged up to that point.