How do you sell a gun?

[Sam1911]

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.

 

[dogtown tom]

Sam1911 ....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.

It is also possible that the officer at the traffic stop was using those questions as an investigative technique.......he knows there ISN'T a registry of firearms AND he's pretty sure the person he stopped DOESN'T know that.

Asking "why is so and so's name on this gun and not yours?" might get the subject flustered and thats exactly what the officer wants.....a reason to investigate further.

 

[Sam1911]

DT, yes, that is certainly so, though I didn't mention it because I got the impression Snag's nephew was saying that the officer actually produced Snag's actual name. That would be quite a feat.

"This gun isn't registered to you...why is that?" is pretty easy to toss out.

"This gun isn't registered to you, it's registered to Jim Smith of Akron, OH. Why is that?" is a whole 'nother thing. And I contend cannot be done. (In most states.)

 

[rhodco]

You guys are so funny! Making up all these little rules for selling your guns to make you feel like you are helping to stop bad people from getting them. This is hilarious!

A buyer (of Anything) should always ask for a written receipt to prove he paid for the item. The seller doesn't need to care one way or the other. You got your money and the deal is done. How arrogant to impose your personal requirements for selling where no such law exists. I have nothing to hide, but I would not buy anything from you on principal alone. You infringe upon my rights with your hoops to jump through and you won't get my business. We call that a free market.

When I am the seller, I just make sure the money is real and the buyer looks old enough to be legal. It is not my responsibility to confirm his legal status, it is his. We have no way of knowing whether he is a good guy or a bad guy. He alone is responsible for what he does with it, not me.

 

[kcshooter]

I would not buy anything from you

Damn right you wouldn't.
Based solely on your arrogant attitude, I wouldn't sell you a thing.

 

[Trunk Monkey]

How arrogant to impose your personal requirements for selling where no such law exists. I have nothing to hide, but I would not buy anything from you on principal alone. You infringe upon my rights with your hoops to jump through and you won't get my business.

They are disposing of their own property, in a manner of their choosing, consistant with (or at least not circumventing) the law.

How is that arrogant and how are they infringing your rights?

It's their property and their right to dispose of it (within the confines of law) as they see fit

We call that a free market.

Which is why they have every right ( Again, within the confines of law) to dispose of their property as they see fit

 

[Snag]

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.

Just to clarify the officer really did come up with my name. That's the only point I was trying to make. That the officer easily came up with where, when and by who the gun was purchased. I know that much is true because my nephew asked me what the hell Kesselring was, which is the name of the place I bought it. He wouldn't of know that if the officer didn't tell him. What I don't know is if it was just a traffic stop.

I understand the skepticism. I wouldn't, and didn't, think it was possible until what I described before happened. Sorry, didn't mean to derail the thread or anything with that story.

.....because I got the impression Snag's nephew was saying that the officer actually produced Snag's actual name

Correct, that was the impression I was trying to give.

 

[Warp]

How do I sell a gun?

I post it in the sale section of a gun forum, often a local forum.

When somebody expresses interest I meet them somewhere local and public.

They bring cash (or use a nearby ATM), I bring the gun. We swap.

The End.


I have done this four times so far