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shaggy · March 20, 2006, 11:36 AM

If you are a licensed dealer & SOT you can buy a G18 if you have a letter from a law enforcement agency requesting a demonstration of such. However, since it would be a post-1986 sample, when or if the FFL/SOT ever gave up or lost their license the gun would have to be sold off (to another FFL/SOT with a demonstration request letter or to a law enforcement agency) or destroyed.

I don't think there are any transferable G18's on the registry, although there may be a conversion of a G17 or two. If you could find a transferable G18 or G17 conversion, however, you'd probably need at least $40,000 for it. There's a few transferable Beretta 93Rs and Taurus 93R conversions but they are also very rare - the last transferable one I saw for sale was about $25,000.

March 20, 2006, 11:36 AM	#3
shaggy Senior Member Join Date: October 9, 2004 Posts: 1,519	If you are a licensed dealer & SOT you can buy a G18 if you have a letter from a law enforcement agency requesting a demonstration of such. However, since it would be a post-1986 sample, when or if the FFL/SOT ever gave up or lost their license the gun would have to be sold off (to another FFL/SOT with a demonstration request letter or to a law enforcement agency) or destroyed. I don't think there are any transferable G18's on the registry, although there may be a conversion of a G17 or two. If you could find a transferable G18 or G17 conversion, however, you'd probably need at least $40,000 for it. There's a few transferable Beretta 93Rs and Taurus 93R conversions but they are also very rare - the last transferable one I saw for sale was about $25,000.