selling in the classifieds

KG1 said:

My last 19 words on the subject. Do what works for you and I'll do what has worked for me.

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Lpherr said:

FIFY

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Michigan Slim said:

20

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Lpherr said:

FIFY

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ditcherman said:

One was a number.

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ditcherman said:

One was a number.

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nipprdog said:

One is the loneliest number

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nipprdog said:

One is the loneliest number

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DadSmith said:

Wrong
0 is the loneliest number.
Why am I up right now.
Grr hate sleepless nights.

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nipprdog said:

I figured you were old enough to know;

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BehindBlueI's said:

No gun is "in your name" as there is no registry. If I have a s/n, I can learn the last person who bought it *from an FFL* probably. I can at very least learn the first FFL that it was shipped to from the wholesaler/manufacturer and then from there find the first purchaser.

Simply being the purchaser doesn't make you a suspect. Now if ten crime guns come back to you buying them at an FFL you may have an issue with being investigated for straw purchases, but it doesn't make you a suspect in the crime itself.

I could (well, not me any longer, but someone) show up at your door to see if you'd voluntarily say who you sold the gun to. I guess it's conceivable you could be subpoena'd to ask who you sold it to, though I've never seen that occur.

There's a lot more that goes into establishing reasonable suspicion, let alone probable cause, than you were the last one on FFL record buying the gun. That doesn't even prove you owned it when the crime occurred (as, again, it's not 'in your name').



I'm not telling you to *not* do this. That's up to you. I am disputing you *NEED* to do it. I've sold very few guns, traded a few, and can't tell you at this point who I sold or traded them to. Well, unless I knew the person from some prior relationship. I know guns I sold to friends, of course.

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KG1 said:

I always ask to see a library card.

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KG1 said:

No can do. I do everything by the book.

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loudgroove said:

It's my understanding that FFL records should be destroyed after 10 years. If true, what happens if the gun is over 10 years old?

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Expat said:

Didn’t someone say that ATF was going around and scanning their books?

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indyblue said:

But what if it’s a Library of Congress card?

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Expat said:

Didn’t someone say that ATF was going around and scanning their books?

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bowhunter911 said:

my current ffl just told me the other day its 20 years (i thought it was 10 too). my old ffl told me he has a bonfire with his paper work when it is no longer needed.

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