(a) No person shall acquire the ownership of a firearm, whether usable or unusable, serviceable or unserviceable, modern or antique, registered under prior law or by a prior owner or unregistered, either by purchase, gift, inheritance, bequest, or in any other manner, whether procured in the State or imported by mail, express, freight, or otherwise, until the person has first procured from the chief of police of the county of the person's place of business or, if there is no place of business, the
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-404 Repealed by 2023 N.C. Sess. Laws 8,s. 2-a, eff. 3/29/2023, and applies to pistols sold, given away, transferred, purchased, or received on or after that date. Prosecutions for offenses committed before the effective date of this section are not abated or affected by this section, and the statutes that would be applicable but for this section remain applicable to those prosecutions. Amended by 2016 N.C. Sess. Laws 77,s. 9-a, eff. 7/1/2016. Amended by 2015 N.C. Sess. Laws 195