About a month ago a person came into a local pawn shop and wanted to pawn his deceased fathers mod 94 SR carbine made in 1909 ,he was told that he would be required to fill out a 4473 to get his gun back ,said he will be back to clam it in 1 mo. True to his word he came back in yesterday to redeem the pawn .Was told to fill out a 4473 which he did gave it to the manager and he called it in .Atf denied it and looking over the 4473 he had checked that he was a convicted felon. Of course they would not return his gun but gave him his money back .He threw a hissey fit and wanted to call the police . This is were it gets interesting.
Police came and listened to both sides of the story,asked the manager if he could call the ATF and have them make an exemption so the gun could be returned to the customer,manager made the call with known results.Then the police asked if they could just have the customer pay the pawn charge and then receive the gun they were told NO. They escorted the customer out who was muttering that the pawn shop was taking his gun because it was an antique.
Can't believe that local police have NO idea of federal gun laws no wonder the background checks don't work. It's not the gun shops that should be picketed ,but enforcement branches
Now the pawn shop is holding a firearm without any idea as to what to do with it.
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Police came and listened to both sides of the story,asked the manager if he could call the ATF and have them make an exemption so the gun could be returned to the customer,manager made the call with known results.Then the police asked if they could just have the customer pay the pawn charge and then receive the gun they were told NO. They escorted the customer out who was muttering that the pawn shop was taking his gun because it was an antique.
Can't believe that local police have NO idea of federal gun laws no wonder the background checks don't work. It's not the gun shops that should be picketed ,but enforcement branches
Now the pawn shop is holding a firearm without any idea as to what to do with it.
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