On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 10:28:35 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 12/22/2015 10:20 AM, John H. wrote:
On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 00:27:55 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:


On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 17:16:12 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

wrote:
On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 15:53:32 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 12/21/15 3:23 PM, John H. wrote:
What a pile of ****.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngogl...cly-available/
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Awwwwwwwwww.

Maybe they should make the Maryland firearms registry public.


What registry?

When you purchase a firearm from an FFL in Maryland does he record the
purchase with your name, permit or license number, gun model or type and
serial number?


They sure do in Virginia.

Isn't that a "registry" of sorts?

I think in some states the FFL is required to maintain purchase records
for some number of years. Those records, identifying the purchaser, the
gun model and serial number would be available to LEOs if required.

I believe that my state electronically records purchase records into a
state data base. This applies to both FFL and private sales.


BATF requires that the dealers keep the records until they go out of
business and then they get sent to BATF. It is a fairly leaky process
tho and until fairly recently BATF had no easy way of looking at those
records. They are supposed to be computerizing this but it still might
be years before all the old records get into the system ... if they
can still be located and read.
There is also a law that requires that instant check records be
destroyed after a short time but it is the government. I doubt any
record is destroyed before someone makes a copy.
Guns sold before GCA 68 got implemented universally are even less well
documented and there may not be any documentation of what happened to
any gun since the original sale.