hAkron
Member
I bought a gun at Dick's Sporting Goods recently (it was a Stoger O/U Shotgun that seemed like it would be fun to own). I was talking to the salesman while I was filling out the 4473 form and I ended up making a mistake and writing my state in the box for my city. The guy told me to initial next to it, write in the city name and continue. I finished filling out the form, he called it in, got a proceed, I paid for the gun and went home.
A few weeks later I got an envelope in the mail with Dick's Sporting Goods as the return address. I opened it up and it was a photo copy of the first page of the 4473 right there sitting in my mail box with my name, address, SS number, phone number, height, weight, city of birth, a veritable treasure trove of information relating to my personal identity. There was a note attached to the form that I needed to put a line through the box on the form where I had made the mistake and return the form to Dicks.
The fact that they passed all of this information, unprotected through the mail really makes me uneasy. There is so much personal information on a 4473 that an identity thief could use it to do whatever he wanted.
Would this bother anybody else? Am I being paranoid? What would you do in this situation?
A few weeks later I got an envelope in the mail with Dick's Sporting Goods as the return address. I opened it up and it was a photo copy of the first page of the 4473 right there sitting in my mail box with my name, address, SS number, phone number, height, weight, city of birth, a veritable treasure trove of information relating to my personal identity. There was a note attached to the form that I needed to put a line through the box on the form where I had made the mistake and return the form to Dicks.
The fact that they passed all of this information, unprotected through the mail really makes me uneasy. There is so much personal information on a 4473 that an identity thief could use it to do whatever he wanted.
Would this bother anybody else? Am I being paranoid? What would you do in this situation?