For a nice horror story ... : My elderly neighbor asked a couple of years ago if I wanted to buy his .357 revolver .. ( Smith & Wesson ) ..
Ok so .. off to Santo Domingo we went , had a " facilitator " help us , at the recommendation of my attorney . Was maybe going to cost 1500 for him ?
Then there was the pee test , and the other tests .. the transfer tax .. the visit to ballistics , where they charge you , but they do not fire the gun , as long as they had fired it before , * but charge you full boat * .. then off to the large ugly building to deposit the pistol , for maybe 2 weeks they told me why they investigated my cedula . Apparently the Venezuelan's have been the " bad apples " with fake Dominican Cedulas . I have a " Dominican Cedula " so wait a few weeks , a call from the " facilitator " needs some more money .. a few weeks later the same thing .. then finally I quit paying .. Now it is 2 years later , with the help of a media friend .. my attorney states the gun can be picked up . I paid all of the fees and all of the transfer fees, taxes etc. , almost 20,000 pesos including the " facilitator " . . which was equal to what I was paying for the gun , as the neighbor , was almost willing to give it to me for free to take it off his hands etc. At this point I think I am just going to let them have the gun , and try to buy a shotgun .. which used to cost around 85,000 pesos , but now I am sure more like 140,000 ? Pistols will require annual hassles and tons of fees and trips to Santo Domingo .
Ok so .. off to Santo Domingo we went , had a " facilitator " help us , at the recommendation of my attorney . Was maybe going to cost 1500 for him ?
Then there was the pee test , and the other tests .. the transfer tax .. the visit to ballistics , where they charge you , but they do not fire the gun , as long as they had fired it before , * but charge you full boat * .. then off to the large ugly building to deposit the pistol , for maybe 2 weeks they told me why they investigated my cedula . Apparently the Venezuelan's have been the " bad apples " with fake Dominican Cedulas . I have a " Dominican Cedula " so wait a few weeks , a call from the " facilitator " needs some more money .. a few weeks later the same thing .. then finally I quit paying .. Now it is 2 years later , with the help of a media friend .. my attorney states the gun can be picked up . I paid all of the fees and all of the transfer fees, taxes etc. , almost 20,000 pesos including the " facilitator " . . which was equal to what I was paying for the gun , as the neighbor , was almost willing to give it to me for free to take it off his hands etc. At this point I think I am just going to let them have the gun , and try to buy a shotgun .. which used to cost around 85,000 pesos , but now I am sure more like 140,000 ? Pistols will require annual hassles and tons of fees and trips to Santo Domingo .