{"data":{"id":"us-va/va.-code-54.1-4200","jurisdiction":"us-va","citation":"Va. Code § 54.1-4200","heading":"Definitions","body":"For the purpose of this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:\"Dealer in firearms\" 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.\"Engaged in business\" 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.\"Firearms show\" 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 § 18.2-308.2:2.1989, c. 490; 1993, c. 477; 2019, c. 238.","path":["Title 54.1. Professions and Occupations","Subtitle V. Occupations Regulated by Local Governing Bodies","Chapter 42. Dealers in Firearms"],"source_url":"https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/54.1-4200/","current_through":"9/4/2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T15:17:24Z","sha256":"fa9a6dc39406efe404366533b82e782cc57bf5a849c79eafb37a0ca1dbc87141","source_id":"us-va","stale":true,"prev":"us-va/va.-code-54.1-4111","next":"us-va/va.-code-54.1-4201"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}