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Is this a form of gun registration?

NOTPARSNOTPARS Member Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited May 2002 in Gun Rights and Constitutional Law
Forgive me if this question has already been asked, I have been off these threads for a while.

I live in Jackson County Missouri. In order to buy a handgun, we must go to the local Sheriff's office. We are required to request a "permit to transfer" form. The say the wait is one week. They don't count the day you request the permit or weekends. Sooooooooooo, its acutally a 7 day wait. Then, when you come in to pay your $10 and pick up the permission, they run a check on you. Then you take the permit to the seller. Once you purchase the handgun, the seller is required to complete the form by noting your name, address, gun purchased, and serial number of the handgun. The seller then sends this form back to the Sheriff.

Is this a form of registration? Does anyone know what the Sheriff does with these forms?


P.S. I for one am not going to vote for this Sheriff again!!!!
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  • S&W ManS&W Man Member Posts: 208 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    What else would you call it? It is like Michigan. To purchase a handgun there, you go to the Sheriff and get a "Permit to Purchase" aka a green card. When you buy the gun you take the completed cand AND THE GUN back to the Sheriff's office for a "Saftey inspection". They keep their copy of the green card. What else would you call stunts like these other than registration???

    The second admendment GUARANTEES the other nine and the Constitution!
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  • badboybobbadboybob Member Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It's similar here in NC. I have to buy a purchase permit ($5) and a background check ($5) then I can exercise my right to guy a handgun. A copy of the purchase permit goes to the sheriff. I have a CHL but still have to go through the same * to buy a pistol. That's registation by any name.

    PC=BS
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  • magnumcreekranchmagnumcreekranch Member Posts: 35 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    What else would you call it. You have to go through local law enforcement to purchase a handgun and they recorded all the information on you and your purchase. I would certainly call that gun registration. Thank God we don't have that crap in Texas.

    NRA Life MemberHill Country ShooterBobbyLIVE TO SHOOT & SHOOT TO LIVE.
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  • MadjackMadjack Member Posts: 71 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sounds like you guys need to start cruising the obituaries? I know it sounds "macabre", but if you play your cards right you can get some good deals and do it under the table. Everyone needs a couple of "goodies" that are unregistered and untracable. Just need to "lay them low" for now.....just in case the socialist party really takes over. Ya know what I mean???

    Forget the Jones's.....I keep up with the Simpsons!
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  • badboybobbadboybob Member Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Madjack that would be illegal

    PC=BS
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  • daddodaddo Member Posts: 3,408
    edited November -1
    "..the right of the PEOPLE to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed!"
    You are being infringed upon- therefore buy any gun you want, anytime,anywhere and challenge that ilegal law. Paying a fee is against your "right", Permission is against your "right".
    They do something like this in Texas- and they will hear some loud a88kicking from us!!
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  • MrNathanLeeMrNathanLee Member Posts: 68 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Im sorry to hear that you have to go through all this bs just to lawfully get a firearm (it almost sounds like they want us to not get em lawfully :P ) and now I feel even luckier because when i turned 17 I went to different gun shops around here lookind at the prices of different firearms trying to get a basis of how much what costs and well i got to talking with one really nice shop owner and he told me that if I was to walk into a shop with the cash and happend to be 21 I could end up walking out with a pistol and ammo that very same day assuming i passed a background check and in fact when I went back there to buy a ruger 10|22 clip (still 17 but he sold me one cause I had a note from my dad and his id along with mine) I had to wait as he got off the phone with someone that had just bought a rifle and walked out with it.

    So i guess I really am just glad that i live in Oregon where there is no sales tax and firearm laws arnt completely messed up...yet
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  • 96harley96harley Member Posts: 3,992 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't know about you guys but I have a tiny junky gun collection.
    Most are rusted shut and I use some for fishing sinkers when I fish a strong current. Of course here where I live the purchase of firearms is just between the buyer and seller. Like I said my collection is small and junky. You know Big Brother's reading our post so be cool.
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  • 96harley96harley Member Posts: 3,992 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:
    I don't know about you guys but I have a tiny junky gun collection.
    Most are rusted shut and I use some for fishing sinkers when I fish a strong current. Of course here where I live the purchase of firearms is just between the buyer and seller. Like I said my collection is small and junky. You know Big Brother's reading our post so be cool.


    "Join the Baby Fur Seal Club and take a swing at life."
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