Hopefully I have this in the right place. A friend of mine had purchased a handgun on Sept 14 2013. When doing so they were told that they were not required to have an HQL at that time. I did some research and found that the law was passed in April of that year for the HQL. So my question is were they misinformed on this? Also since they don't currently have an HQL do they need to have one in order to be in possession of said handgun and if they wanted to sell it what would be the procedure? It's a Kimber Custom 2 45