Help with guns serial number

steriko · Nov 28, 2012

hello
I need to check 5 guns serial numbers to make sure that they are not stolen or use in a crime. Can any one help me with that?

Darkemp · Nov 28, 2012

steriko said:
hello
I need to check 5 guns serial numbers to make sure that they are not stolen or use in a crime. Can any one help me with that?

Why do you think they could be stolen or used in a crime? Need more details, it's a suspicious question.

gmhowell · Nov 28, 2012

Can't you call the MSP or drop by and ask them? Pretty dicey proposition though...

Name Taken · Nov 28, 2012

steriko said:
Can any one help me with that?

HAHAHA...no

Can you take them to MSP who I'm sure will push for "voluntary registration".

They arent just going to check them on your whim.

If it sounds to good to be true...it probably is.

DCSCO · Nov 28, 2012

That information should be public record, just don't know how to find it in one place.

Near Christmas in a bad economy, I can understand someone wanting to convert a safe queen to quick cash. As the buyer, you want to do your due diligence to make sure that lucky feeling is correct.

midcountyg · Nov 28, 2012

Try calling your local pd and ask them to run the numbers through NICS. I know our locals will do that.

K31 · Nov 28, 2012

When in doubt, insist on an FFL transfer.

midcountyg · Nov 28, 2012

K31 said:
When in doubt, insist on an FFL transfer.

If they are nonregulated, which I am assuming, they still will not get checked unless the ffl calls the serial numbers in for police to check. If the ffl doesn't take it on their own to have them checked, the serial numbers don't go any farther then the paperwork he retains. If they are regulated, they must go through a ffl or MSP barracks, and when paperwork is submitted to MSP they will run serial numbers.

Half-cocked · Nov 28, 2012

"...or used in a crime".

?

Because criminals are careful to report their serial #'s, whenever they commit a crime with any firearm? And police make sure that guns seized from criminals get re-circulated back into the criminal population illegally? (Well, aside from what we already know about the BATF....)

steriko · Nov 28, 2012

Half-cocked said:
"...or used in a crime".

?

Because criminals are careful to report their serial #'s, whenever they commit a crime with any firearm? And police make sure that guns seized from criminals get re-circulated back into the criminal population illegally? (Well, aside from what we already know about the BATF....)

some time guns get "lost" in the police evidence room and when I come from guns are not stamp/mark if they get conficated

Mark392001 said:
Why do you think they could be stolen or used in a crime? Need more details, it's a suspicious question.

we get the guns in a storage auction

K31 · Nov 28, 2012

steriko said:
we get the guns in a storage auction

Then the auction needs to transfer them to you through an FFL.

Mooseman · Nov 28, 2012

There is no online database that you can check for stolen gun serial numbers. I don't know why. This would be a good idea.

mvee · Nov 28, 2012

Mooseman said:
There is no online database that you can check for stolen gun serial numbers. I don't know why. This would be a good idea.

http://www.hotgunz.com/
http://www.stolenweapon.com/Stolen-Gun-Search-Startsearch.html
:innocent0

I know nothing about these links...

Mooseman · Nov 28, 2012

mvee said:
http://www.hotgunz.com/
http://www.stolenweapon.com/Stolen-Gun-Search-Startsearch.html

I know nothing about these links...

Yes there are these sights. They are far from complete listings of stolen guns. The first one says it contains 4000 listings and I am sure the second sight does not contain many more.

Darkemp · Nov 28, 2012

K31 said:
Then the auction needs to transfer them to you through an FFL.

He is correct. You can't just keep guns found in a storage auction unit. Most auction companies require you to surrender firearms if found too.

steriko · Jan 11, 2013

Guns came clean thanks for all the help.

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