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>But this sound too god to be true in my opinion.
It is true.
Though you have to renew your range license every-year and get it stamped 3 times a year in controlled sessions. Basically all it does is it costs yearly money and you have to show up from time to time to train… (something which there are no downsides).
Buying cat B firearms is a bit of a pain since you have to ask for a prefecture authorization (which takes at least 2 months) which comes with paperwork (green slit from the federation, proof you have a safe that kind of shit, copy of your stamps thingy, etc… Nothing challenging if you're familiar with the french administration, a horrible-killing-bald-eagle-at-a-sight-nightmare if you're American), a police investigation (which typically shouldn't be more than a phone call of the cops/gendarmes to check if you're not a mute and lied about your phone number because the only question they might ask is "why do you want to buy guns? To which the answer is "to stop using those of the club and have my own". They might come to check the safe and shit but since it's one guy per sous-prefecture size area that does that it's not like he gives an actual fuck as long as nothing seems weird in your profile… which you're filling, so…). That's were there is a bit of a caveat since some prefecture don't give a fuck and issue permits to buy 3 at a time with a fair limit before they ask you if you really need more semi-autos that you have fingers (then you have to apply for "collector" status which is an entire different beast, I think) and some issue permits one by one and frown past two guns (at least that's what I heard. So far where I am we're in the first category, so…)
Something to really know is that yearly licenses are in SCHOOL YEARS (as are most sports federations in France).
Meaning if you take a license today you only have 5 months until it expires (most ranges being sports clubs rather than range they tend to close for part or total of summer holidays for the same reason since sports clubs are largely coordinated for kids/youth activities).
Though it might be a good idea to get one now make a first stamp immediately in middle March, second stamp end of Mai, take the 2018-2019 license in September, make your third stamp and start doing the paperwork to buy guns, you should have your authorization(s) by Christmas.
Once you have the authorization(s), buying the guns themselves is trivial, you give the papers to the gunshop they fill what they have to, you pay, you leave with your gun(s).
Internet buy is you pay to reserve the gun, then you have to post the authorization, they receive them, do what they have to do with it, they send it back with the gun (gun come in two different packages, typically the gun then the barrel or something like that).