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Buying a gun online in Dallas

Order here, pick it up at a licensed dealer anywhere in the Metroplex. The best firearms buys in Dallas are the ones you compared at a live price first.

Dallas is a competition town. The metro has more pistol and 3-gun clubs than any other part of Texas, the indoor ranges run leagues on weeknights, and the parking lots on a Saturday morning are full of trucks headed to matches in Ennis, Terrell and Denton County. That shows in what sells: full-size 9mm pistols with optics cuts, CZ Shadow 2s and Canik race guns, and AR-15s built light and fast. The F1 Firearms shelf on this site is aimed squarely at that crowd. Around the edges are whitetail rifles for leases in the Cross Timbers and over-unders for the dove opener.

1. Pick your dealer

Any FFL in Dallas, Plano, Garland, Irving, Mesquite, Richardson, Frisco, McKinney or Denton that accepts shipped transfers. Ask the fee.

2. Order here

Name that dealer at checkout. We confirm the license before the firearm ships. Parts and ammunition ship to your door.

3. Paperwork

ATF Form 4473 at the counter. The dealer runs the FBI NICS check, or may accept your Texas LTC in its place.

4. Same visit

No waiting period in Texas. A clear check means you leave with the gun.

What to bring to the dealer

Government photo ID with your current address. If your Texas driver license shows an old one, bring a utility bill or other document the dealer accepts.
The transfer fee, paid to the shop. Around Dallas it is commonly $25 to $50, and a few of the big-box counters charge more. Call ahead.
Your order number so they can find the package.
Your LTC, if you have one. ATF lists it as a NICS alternative; the dealer decides whether to use it.

Dallas County rules

There are none beyond state and federal law. Local Government Code 229.001 bars cities from regulating the sale, ownership, carrying or storage of firearms and ammunition, and 236.002 does the same for counties, so Dallas, Plano, Garland, Irving, Frisco and unincorporated land all run on the Texas Penal Code. No permit to buy, no registration, no waiting period, no magazine limit. A qualifying adult 21 or older may carry a holstered handgun without a license; the DPS License to Carry is optional and still worth having for reciprocity and campus carry. Cities keep their discharge ordinances, and downtown Dallas has plenty of 30.06 and 30.07 signs on private doors, so read them.

General information, not legal advice. The statutes are collected on our Texas gun law page, and a Texas attorney can answer questions about your own situation.

Race guns and the parts to build them

If you shoot USPSA, IDPA or 3-gun anywhere in North Texas, you already know the guns: a Shadow 2 or a Canik Rival in the pistol bay, a light AR with a fast handguard and a good brake on the rifle stage. This store stocks around 150 F1 Firearms parts from its own shelf, skeletonized handguards, matched billet receiver sets, barrels, BCGs and muzzle devices, and ships the non-firearm parts straight to your Dallas address. Receiver sets go to your FFL. Pair them with a CZ or Canik pistol and you have a match bag.

Hunting around Dallas

Whitetail general season in the North Zone opens the first Saturday of November and runs into early January. The Cross Timbers west toward Jacksboro and the Blackland Prairie east toward Greenville hold plenty of deer, almost all on leased or permission-only private land, and a .270, .308 or 6.5 Creedmoor bolt gun covers it. Feral hogs are on every creek bottom and need no license on private land. Dove opens September 1 and quail in late October on the Rolling Plains northwest of Wichita Falls. TPWD publishes the seasons in the Outdoor Annual each August; the hog and deer rifle guide covers calibers.