Stolen Firearms

jocko007

Why don't we have a place to post info on stolen firearms. Maybe this is a stupid question, or maybe no one is interested.??????

Cliff

jocko007

On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 while I was being blessed with the birth of my 1st granddaughter, someone broke into my vehicle and stole 2 of my firearms from the hospital parking garage. We were at Memorial Hermann Memorial City Hospital at I-10 and Gessner.
Here is the information:
1. Springfield Armory 1911 A-1 Ultra Compact V10; .45 ACP; Semi-Automatic; Serial Number LW359971; Black
2. Springfield Armory XDm-40; .40 S&W; Semi-Automatic; Serial Number MG169120; Black and Olive Green
Be on the look out. I appreciate any information if you should ever come across these firearms. Thank you!
flashgordon1968@gmail.com

jocko007

Have you ever had a firearm stolen? Here is a link to a 148 page current ATF list of recovered stolen firearms that will be forfeited if no claim is filed. http://www.forfeiture.gov/pdf/ATF/OfficialNotification.pdf

offeror

...I guess because the country is so big and we are so small. There seems to be an old tradition in publishing NOT to publish serial numbers in their entirety for an individual's guns anyway, probably for privacy/Second Amendment freedom reasons. But once they're gone, I guess serial numbers might help to get them back, and couldn't hurt.

While you are certainly welcome to describe a batch of stolen firearms (if admin agrees), I'm not sure any of us would be likely to come across them at a gun show. I would suspect they're either used by the crooks themselves or pawned. If I hear about a stolen gun, I generally keep an eye open, just in case someone is dumb enough to try to sell it in public. It's not a bad idea for all of us to shoot some digital pictures of our guns for insurance and online purposes too, to help with identification of lost or stolen firearms.

- Life NRA Member
"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878

Tazmutt

I would like to see a "regional" listing for stolen guns. While I'm sure many stolen guns travel long distances, I'd bet that most of them are stolen local juvenile punks and would end up being pawned off within a few hundred mile radius. This would at least narrow it down some.

barto

search in isthisgunstolen.com
barto

the hard stuff we do right away - the impossible takes a little longer

Alpine

Pawn shops are "required" to submit a slip with serial numbers of everything that is taken in. These slips then go to the police agency for running the serial numbers on NCIC (or what ever it is called now).
Any way that is how it works on the left coast.

Local law enforcement would test pawn shops occasionally with a known stolen item. They would have someone bring it in for pawn. Then see if the the item showed up on the pawn list. If it did, the pawn shop was looked at as reliable. If not, search warrant, loss of license, business locked up.

"If you ain't got pictures, I wasn't there."