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In Indiana, private gun sales, meaning transactions between individuals that do not involve a licensed gun dealer, do not require background checks. This means that individuals can buy and sell firearms to one another without undergoing the formal process typically associated with sales through a licensed dealer, which includes a mandated background check.

While background checks are an important measure to help prevent prohibited individuals from acquiring firearms, Indiana's laws allow for these private transactions to occur without that safeguard. This is a distinction that makes Indiana's regulations on private sales differ significantly from states that have enacted stricter background check requirements on all firearm sales, including private ones.

The options suggesting that checks are always required, only at gun shows, or exclusively for handguns are not aligned with Indiana's law as it currently stands, emphasizing the lack of requirement for background checks in private sales.