Never ran into a local FFL that required it except for a retail chain. The gun library manager thought the law specified only FFL's could mail firearms and even sent out a cop from the back room who maintained their books to push the same line. They finally called corporate when I pushed back hard enough and found out it was only company policy due to paranoid lawyers who thought they were going to get all kinds of stolen guns mailed to them if they accepted them from individuals.

But not one of four "professionals" in the gun department knew a thing about gun laws.

That episode directly led to me getting my C&R FFL... but even then you deal with idiots occasionally.

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