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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>68120</law_id><section_number>54.1-4200</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>18.2-308.2:5</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="54.1">Professions and Occupations</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="V">Occupations Regulated by Local Governing Bodies</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="42">Dealers in Firearms</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>For the purpose of this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Dealer in firearms</span>&#x201D; means (i) any person, firm, partnership, or corporation engaged in the business of selling, trading or transferring firearms at wholesale or retail; (ii) any person, firm, partnership, or corporation engaged in the business of making or fitting special barrels, stocks, or trigger mechanisms to firearms; or (iii) any natural person that is a pawnbroker.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Engaged in business</span>&#x201D; means as applied to a <span class="dictionary">dealer in firearms</span> a person, firm, partnership, or corporation that devotes time, attention, and labor to dealing in firearms as a regular course of trade or business with the principal objective of livelihood and profit through repetitive purchase or resale of firearms, but such term shall not involve a person who makes occasional sales, exchanges, or purchases of firearms for the enhancement of a personal collection or for a hobby, or who sells all or part of his personal collection of firearms.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Firearms show</span>&#x201D; means any gathering or exhibition, open to the public, not occurring on the permanent premises of a <span class="dictionary">dealer in firearms</span>, conducted principally for the purposes of exchanging, selling or trading firearms as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Criminal history record information check required for the transfer of certain firearms" href="/18.2-308.2_2/">18.2-308.2:2</a>.</p></section></text><history>1989, c. 490; 1993, c. 477; 2019, c. 238.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
