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another gun show checks question

TxsTxs Member Posts: 17,809 ✭✭✭
edited January 2013 in General Discussion
I didn't want to hijack the thread about background checks at gun shows, so...

What would your opinion be of LE setting up a table and offering to check guns for stolen through NCIC at gun shows?

Comments

  • machine gun moranmachine gun moran Member Posts: 5,198
    edited November -1
    I'd like that. Some would find their way back to their rightful owners, and a lot more would end up as the property of an insurance company, but they would just resell them to an FFL, and the gun could again get a clean start. There is also the possibility that backtracking could lead to the prosecution of the theives.
  • andrewsw16andrewsw16 Member Posts: 10,728 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I would like it even better if it was just a public web site. Enter the identifying data on a gun and get an instant response on whether or not it is listed as stolen. If yes, contact info.

    No need to identify the current owner or the person making the query, just enter the gun ID info. Now that, I would like to see.
  • RosieRosie Member Posts: 14,525 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have mixed feelings about that. I have owned many many guns over the years and logic and sheer numbers would say I probably owned a stolen gun or two. I only know of one and I turned it in the minute I found out about it. Lost the gun and my money. Be kinda scary if a gun you owned for years and was selling it to someone and it came up stolen. No one would believe you didn't know it and you would HAVE to turn it in. At least I would. The police would want to know where you got it and I don't know about you but I don't know where I got half my guns.
  • bigoutsidebigoutside Member Posts: 19,443
    edited November -1
    I'd like a national database of stolen guns.
    With full and transparent access for all.

    And a clear notification about state and federal penalties for trafficking in stolen goods. And gun running. And straw purchases.



    I hate to admit it. But Nancy Reagan's 'just say no' was pretty damn effective.

    I would love to know that my stolen pistol was off the street.
  • TxsTxs Member Posts: 17,809 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Would you buy a gun from someone who refused to allow you to have them run it?
  • slumlord44slumlord44 Member Posts: 3,702 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have walked away from a couple of deals that were too good and just did not feel right. Never refused to sell for that reason though. In Illinois, though, if the guy has a FOID you are prety safe to sell privately. At a gun show here you still have to do a background check and hold the gun for 24hours with a long gun or 72 hours with a handgun.
  • EhlerDaveEhlerDave Member Posts: 5,158 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    If they set up a free website I would run the serial numbers of anything I was looking at buying. I know that if it hit as stolen some LEO would show up to ask where and how I came about that gun. For me I would point out the fella that brought it to me, then they could go ask him.

    Just what would we all do when the gun came back listed as stolen? Hold the gun for the law, while risking getting shot buy the guy who bought it years ago and now thinks you are stealing his gun? Could get real bad real fast.
    Just smile and say nothing, let them guess how much you know.
  • shilowarshilowar Member Posts: 38,811 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Gunfax .com


    You can check the mileage, the crash history, flood and fire damage, theft and maintenance...even if its had a scope, reloads through it, or a hogue grip at one time.

    [:D]
  • retroxler58retroxler58 Member Posts: 32,693 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by shilowar
    Gunfax .com


    You can check the mileage, the crash history, flood and fire damage, theft and maintenance...even if its had a scope, reloads through it, or a hogue grip at one time.

    [:D]
    That would be cool...

    And to answer the question by Txs: quote:Would you buy a gun from someone who refused to allow you to have them run it?Hell No...
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