Hunter757 wrote:
So I spoke with a FFL today and they told me that I can't transfer a frame only if I bought the gun as whole pistol. They told me that if I sold it as a frame only after buying new as a pistol they have a record of that sale in Olympia and if the buyer ever gets checked and they find that frame with a slide on it they would come after me? Any truth to this seems so stupid but I don't pretend to know the laws and my understanding was Washington did not or could not keep a record of what guns I bought?
The first part (bolded) is simply not true. There is no law requiring you to keep a firearm complete in its original configuration when you sell it - that would be absurd, and it's equally absurd that a licensed dealer would advise you that way.
The second part is half-true. The true part is that a new-to-you pistol transferred through a FFL in WA will be registered in your name with WA DOL. This is a result if the state FTA (formerly PTA) form you filled out during the purchase/transfer process along with the federal 4473. The false part is that you would somehow be subject to criminal prosecution for having transferred the serialized frame of a pistol to someone else who later was found to have used it in the commission of a crime - provided you followed all applicable laws when you performed that transfer.