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Checking for HOT GUNS before selling,Where at? Any
Mike Coplinn
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Part II (posting again in General Discussion this time because other one Locked)
Hi,
I have some guns I am thinking about selling, some I bought at a gun shop and others I bought at flea markets. My questions is this, is they're a way to run a check on a gun number before I decide to sell it ??? Is there a free online databases or website somewhere online that anybody knows of ???
Hi,
I have some guns I am thinking about selling, some I bought at a gun shop and others I bought at flea markets. My questions is this, is they're a way to run a check on a gun number before I decide to sell it ??? Is there a free online databases or website somewhere online that anybody knows of ???
Comments
There is NO national database that a civilian has access to.
Its really unbelievable if you think about it that they don't have something like AutoFax that buys (From The DMV) all of our personal information to invent a profitable business out of it. But in the Gun world I guess you would call it something like "Gun Track" that would track all owners (numbers only) of guns. It would not need to be something complex at all. The New national online data base subject would work somthing like this, what I was thinking is all you would just need is three pieces of information 1) user name (anything) 2)gun numbers (from the 4473 forms maybe) and 3) a e-mail address or private phone number, that's it. There would be no personal information about the gun owner at all that would be available to anybody just a online look up, for a fee or maybe free tool. What do you think about this idea???
why would anyone pay for a service to check SN on guns rather than just going to or calling the local PD and having them do it for free?
sounds like another way to track PTP transfer of firearms.
A few have even posted here in the past.
To UncleFudd The idea of the national data base was just for conversational purposes and a idea on the fly or to sort of shake the tree and see what falls kind of thing. Mainly I have two guns that I need to sell because I need the money (I need to pay a phone bill). I got the guns a long time ago on a great sales pitch and a price I could not pass up, on the cheap. But just to be on the safe side was looking to make sure they are not HOT before I put them up for sale. I should of ask my brother this question before I posted here because he use to be a gun dealer (whole sale cost to family & friends only) and had his Federal Firearms License I think class one, that was a long time ago. Also I was on the books as a gun transporter so I guess you can say that I was a legal gunrunner at one point in my life. I am not anti-gun nor am I anti-human either (of the world) at the same time. I admit I am not a gun freak or a gun activist of some kind; I just like to be able to own a few guns for shooting and personal protection. But I would have to say that it is nice to had met a what I call a gun warrior that is working hard to make sure us Americans can keep and bier arms and I guess that is what you like to do? That's great and I thank you and so does every other American that takes public gun ownership for granite.
But as for as the national data base subject goes I don't understand what "walk to the slaughter" means or what you are talking about. What I was thinking is just three pieces of information need in this online database 1) user name (anything) 2)gun numbers (from the 4473 forms maybe) and 3) a e-mail address or private phone number, that's it. There would be no personal information about the gun owner at all that would be available to any kook and no walk to the slaughter house to be chopped up as if you was in a third world country or something, maybe you are, just joking. But at the same time I am beginning to believe like some new books on the market is stating that America is working at a dysfunctional democracy now and needs to be worked into shape. Because we are not practicing what we preach around the world, we can't even keep our own value of the US dollar from tanking downward, why is that????
Your mind set might be more into the gun world then mine, and you might even be a good gunsmith by trade and a great gun activist as well, for public weaponry. We are not that different and are more of a member of the same goals or backup plan then one my think or need be. I am a professional machinist (tool room machinist/tool maker) by trade and have no fears of being with out guns/weapons in hard (walk to the slaughter) times. You will be surprised how united American machinist are and totally organized they can become in a push of a button, if need be. So trust me there will be no shortage of weapons or guns if this country ever gets invaded, if that is what the walk to the slaughter you are talking about means. Most all guns on the market have already been reversed engineered in secret and blue prints are just waiting for guys like me to build in hard times, piece of cake. I worked at lots of places over the years built the first prototype heat exchange unit that brought everyone MMX micro chip technology (old CPU's now) I also use to build airplane parts (F16's) for the government along with tons of Flexo printing press parts for the printing industries to die making in high pressure valves (([:D])) area to tool and die making of your riding lawn mower factories and the list goes on and on. The defense department works with lots of shops (manufacturing business) other then your basic targets like Boeing just for that reason I stated earlier. Everything right down to the possess sheets and blueprints on each part is already organized as a back up plan to be produced at many different companies through out the United States. So the so-called walk to the slaughter will not make a dent in this country defenses if our main targets have been hit, or taken out (At least in St.Louis). That's old news anyway but if there was hard times I can imagine that there will be hundreds of secret gun smiths very busy in secret hiding places..;-) Like the good old days of the covert cold war, just joking that stuff is all over anyway isn't it??? Are you getting a hard on yet..[;)]????