                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 54.1-4200)

For the purpose of this chapter, unless the context requires a different
meaning:
		&#8220;Dealer in firearms&#8221; 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.
		&#8220;Engaged in business&#8221; means as applied to a dealer in firearms 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.
		&#8220;Firearms show&#8221; means any gathering or exhibition, open to the
public, not occurring on the permanent premises of a dealer in firearms,
conducted principally for the purposes of exchanging, selling or trading
firearms as defined in § 18.2-308.2:2.

HISTORY: 1989, c. 490; 1993, c. 477; 2019, c. 238.