On 11/16/14 3:17 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 11/16/2014 2:40 PM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 14:33:45 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:
On 11/16/2014 2:02 PM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 13:17:43 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:
On 11/16/2014 1:13 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 11:40:27 -0600, Califbill
wrote:
Harrold wrote:
On 11/16/2014 12:02 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 22:03:46 -0500, Roger
wrote:
The way I see it is if a gun is used in a crime and still has
a serial
number on it the first step would be for the police to contact
the
manufacturer. From there they would know the dealer who sold
who will
give them the buyers name. When they contact the buyer they
will be
looking for the gun and I would prefer to know who I sold it
to if I
didn't have it. If it was sold privately, I only have a bill
of sale
and a copy of their drivers license (not required but that's
what I
do). By transferring through a dealer we aren't forcing
registration
but we a taking ourselves completely out of the loop.
Cops seldom even care where a gun came from. Maybe some day
they might
but I am not sure what purpose it would actually serve.
If the gun is not fairly new, it will usually have "been
around" and
there will be gaps in the ownership chain.
4473s are not required to be sent to DC and the dealer can destroy
them after 20 years. If the dealer goes out of business or simply
dies, his 4473s and his "bound book" may just languish in a
dusty box
until his family throws them out..
The current system was purposely designed NOT to be a registry.
Let's take, for example, one of the guns Harry bought in Virginia.
Harry has the gun, there is a Maryland dealer with the 4473 in his
files but if Harry doesn't say who he is and know how to get in
touch
with him, there is no way to find him. If you do, there will be a
direct link to the dealer in Virginia and the person who sold
it to
him but if they can't locate that person, the trail goes cold
again.
If they do find him and he can't locate the dealer he got it
from you
are still dead in the water. Every private owner is a break in the
chain and there is no national database linking them.
That all assumes every transaction went through a FFL to begin
with
and that those dealers and their records still exist.
I doubt more than 10% of the dealers I bought guns from over
the years
are still in business or that the FFL holders are even alive.
Most were used when I got them (from a dealer) and the chance of
getting back to the manufacturer is nil.
I have some that were sold in a number of private transactions
before
I bought them. They are total dead ends.
Maybe not. Ballistics checks on those guns might tie them to
unsolved
crimes. I hope you keep your bills of sales for gun purchases.
I can not find a bill of sale for luggage I bought 6 months ago
that went
bad. How are we to keep track of a bill of sale, even if we had
one, for a
gun bought 50 years ago? I sold a Ruger RedHawk to a ,friend of
a friend
in about 1970, and replaced with a Colt that was for sale on a
note on the
wall of the Martinez gun range same year. Was not required to
have FFL
transfer, receipt, or even to know someone in those days. You
plopped down
pictures of dead presidents and took possession. Same way it is
still
done in the inner city.
I doubt I could even come up with the name of the dealers I bought
most of my guns from and if you went there it might be a Starbucks.
I don't know of a single one of them that is still in business.
Even my 2 most recent purchases were from dealers run out of business
by Bass Pro Shop.
I don't have paperwork on any of them.
Another good reason for a state by state or national data base.
Only if he needs the paperwork.
Greg - do you need the paperwork?
That's fine John if all you are interested in is protecting your own
ass.
I thought that was one of your main arguments for the paperwork - to
keep the cops off my ass.
No. The main reason for registration and a chain of custody is to
provide a means of identifying who *last* legally owned the gun.
Once it goes underground it becomes untraceable. By mandating
registration, it will help reduce the number of guns that end up in the
wrong hands. Responsible owners of legally obtained firearms should
have no problem with that, in my mind. But they do. 2A stuff.
Your bill of sale works for you, but what about 5, 10 or 20 years from
now? Where will your Kimber .45 that you give to your nephew or
someone in 2018 end up in 2029?
That's what I am talking about.
I've already determined where my guns will go if I still have any when I
kick the bucket or become too senile to be responsible for them. I've
already told my family to take the guns to the local police department
and turn them in. I should add that to my will, I suppose.
If any of my sons or relatives want a gun, they can go through the
process like everyone else does. Actually, one son probably has more
guns than I do and both he and his wife went through a much more
extensive training course than I did. The other son has no interest in
guns. He's a nature photographer, not a hunter.
My daughter doesn't need a gun. She could beat the crap out of you with
her bare hands. Cracks me up.
Aside from the societal good that will come of what you propose, the
best thing about it is that it drives gun nutzies like herring, bar,
w'hine and greg...nuttier.
--
Just because you are opposed to abortion doesn’t make you pro-life. Your
morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a
child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed, not a child
clothed, not a child able to see the doctor. That’s not pro-life…that’s
pro-birth.