Sam1911
Moderator Emeritus
An officer with a gun's serial number generally has the ability to call in and check if that gun has been registered as STOLEN with a stolen guns database. If it comes back negative, that's all the information he's got, unless his state has some kind of registration.
If his state has a firearms registry, he could look to see if that gun is registered to the person s/he has stopped, and might be able to see what other name that gun is registered to. But MT and ID have no gun registry.
So someone has some explaining to do. If the officer really did somehow come up with your name, while standing on the side of a highway in a distant state -- that would be etremely interesting. But I'd bet 100:1 against.
If his state has a firearms registry, he could look to see if that gun is registered to the person s/he has stopped, and might be able to see what other name that gun is registered to. But MT and ID have no gun registry.
So someone has some explaining to do. If the officer really did somehow come up with your name, while standing on the side of a highway in a distant state -- that would be etremely interesting. But I'd bet 100:1 against.