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Stolen Gun?
dick471
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Is there any way to find if a stolen gun was ever registered? I had a Walther PP .380 S/N 32665 stolen in San Francisco Jan 1977. Made a police report but nothing ever found or they never notified me.
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Neal
A check of the national data base has resulted in some expensive shotguns being confiscated at registration and returned to the person reporting the firearm stolen in one case that I know of. So it appears there is a procedure for recovering a stolen firearm if has been registered in another jurisdiction. It is just that some jurisdictions either have no registration requirement or lack the manpower to check the database.
www.hotgunz.com
http://www.stolenweapon.com/Stolen-Gun-Home.html
Call SFPD and see if it is/isn't in the NCIC system using the serial number. Since the 90's, in Ca reports involving stolen guns have to be kept by the agency until the gun is recovered... but I don't know what the rules were back in '77. NCIC should keep them active until it is recovered as well.
New owner.
How can a new purchaser obtain a 'clear title' to a firearm? Is their any way to insure that a firearm is 'clean' [read: not on any list] prior to purchase?
Thanks, Joe
After thought editted in: I wonder what the possibility would be of allowing the general public to have READ-ONLY access to the NCIC database, at least the stolen gun portion. Then people could run their own checks before buying. Heck, if they wanted to cover the cost of the connection, they could offer a reward for information on stolen guns. Just wonderin'....