Trade a gun to your buddy for a car parts, you could be a dealer. NOT TRUE
Give someone a gun for tiling your floor, you could be a dealer.
Loose your job and sell some guns to pay your bills, you could be a dealer.
Buy a gun, don't like it, sell it within 30 days, you could be a dealer.
Sell some guns and loose money, you could be a dealer.
If the AFT says you're a dealer, you're a dealer. Under the new rule you are presumed guilty and must prove your innocence.
Has anyone read the 400+ page rule? Me neither.
Most of the above is not true. See page 12-13 above for safe harbors
There are specific exemptions for liquidating a collection, estates, selling a collectible gun to obtain funds to buy a more collectible gun, etc.
BMT
And the lawyers in the video above will tell you there's exceptions to all the safe harbor provision, which is the whole point of make the regulation 466 pages, muddy the water so bad you have no idea when you are, or are not considered a dealer.
You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.
You cannot over estimate the unimportance of nearly everything. John Maxwell
