Is it legal to carry a gun not registered in your name?

[toivo]

In NY no handgun can be possessed unless it is currently registered in your name, and no handgun can be obtained legally unless it was previously registered with an FFL or another licensed individual. You may not posess a handgun that is not registered to you regardless of reason even if it is legallyyou registered to someone else.

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What he said.

The exception is FFLs who are receiving shipped handguns for transfer to their new owner. The FFL has to log the gun into his book, but he is not the registered owner as far as the state is concerned. You (the buyer) have to get a receipt from the FFL and take that to the pistol permit bureau to get the gun registered to you before the FFL can release it to you. In the time between the FFL receiving the gun and you getting it registered in your name, the gun is in a sort of limbo. The FFL is in possession, but it's not registered to him. In the time between you registering the gun and you actually picking it up from the FFL, he is in possession of a gun that's actually registered to you, but he's allowed to do that.

Isn't bureaucracy wonderful? I feel so much safer ...

 

[NavyLCDR]

The FFL's are kept by the dealer and can be accessed by law enforcement people by going to the dealer you purchased the weapon from and requesting to see them.

Nope. Local LEO cannot just walk in to a gun shop and demand to see 4473s. They must submit a tracing request to the ATF, the ATF then requests the info from the FFL, and forwards the info to LEO. Many times LEO agencencies will try to circumvent the process and go straight to the FFLs, but they aren't supposed to.

 

[jfdavis58]

The NRA maintains a fairly complete and up-to-date list of just this information:http://www.nraila.org/GunLaws/Federal/Read.aspx?id=74.

You can get the same information at: http://www.handgunlaw.us/, if you want to dig a bit.

A suggestion: keep both sites bookmarked because laws change.

 

[Deanimator]

Your screen name implies that you're from Michigan. It helps to say.

Other than Federal NFA registration, Ohio doesn't have registration of any kind, at any level. Here, it's a completely moot point.

 

[oneounceload]

our screen name implies that you're from Michigan. It helps to say.

He's in Utah - even more of a moot point

Amazing how uneducated folks are, thinking the 4473 is a registration form - the question becomes - where is the BS originating from and how do we stop its dissemination?

 

[ball3006]

None of the pistols I carry are registered to me. chris3

 

[mgkdrgn]

So whats happening when i bought my gun. I ordered it online it shipped to al's sporting goods. I filled out info, so whats that info? isn't it the gun being registered.

Again, what State are you in?

I'm an FFL here in SC. The model/serial number IS on the 4473, but that form goes NO WHERE but in my file cabinet. The info for the NICS background check ONLY says "Handgun or Longgun" ... nothing else. And ... unless you are "denied", even THAT information is supposed to be purged in 24 hours.

That is how the vast majority of the states work.

 

[Art Eatman]

Unless state law or municipal ordinance requires the registration of the gun to be used with a concealed carry license, whatever selection a user makes is the user's business. However, some places only allow one and only one specific, registered handgun on a license.

E.g., Texas CHL law only speaks to whether one can only carry a revolver or can carry either a revolver or a semi-auto. That varies as to which you use in qualifying for the license. Qualify with a revolver means revolver only. Qualify with a semi-auto, carry either. So, any of your several revolvers or semi-autos can be carried.

How it might be, elsewhere, I don't know.

 

[whalerman]

Here in NY, all legal handguns are registered. It's only the illegal ones that we don't worry about. Only law abiding citizens worry about registering their handguns. Criminals don't. Now we're about to pass a balistic fingerprinting scheme. It'll be really neat. Again, only law abiding people will partake. Criminals haven't decided yet. Be happy if you live in a free state. We don't.

 

[230therapy]

Guns are not tied to permits in Virginia. CHP permits "allow" concealed carry. No permit whatsoever is needed for open carry.

Some states do require registration of the gun and tie it to the permit. You should probably avoid such states.