wolverine_173
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How should i go about selling my gun so i dont get into trouble?
As long as you had no reason to suspect the buyer/seller to be a prohibited person, then you're fine. In other words, all it takes is something like this:
You: "Are you a felon, or otherwise prohibited from owning a firearm?"
Buyer/seller: "Nope."
You: "Excellent! Have a good day."
You're in the clear as far as federal law goes. State may be a bit different, but it's generally pretty similar.
but what happens if someone commits a crime with my gun that i sold registered in my name?
You can also use your local police or sherrif to run the serial numbers as well for free.
While true, that process defeats the purpose for a lot of face to face buyers. Many of these people DO NOT want a paper trail leading to their purchase, and thats why they are buying ftf rather than from a dealer. Too, most police and sheriffs depts WILL NOT run a check free of charge on your potential purchase. There is no legal requirement that they do so, and as was mentioned, most have far better things to be doing with their time. DO NOT count of your local PD to run serial numbers for you, becasue it just doesn't happen most places. Sure, there are exceptions.....I grew up in a rural community in SD, and the Sheriff wasn't exactly overwhelmed most of the time. if i had brought a gun in to be checked, if he wasn't busy, I'd have a reasonable expectation he'd do it....not because he had to, but because he had the time and wanted to be helpful. Walking into the Orange Co. California's Sheriff's office,and you won't likely get the same treatment. Cops doing such favors is more exception than rule in my experienceThat is the safest way to transfer a firearm, through a lic FFL dealer. It also gives you a paper trail of when and to whom it was transfered to and that they were legally able to purchase one.