Zundfolge
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.Yes, we run checks through NCIC on all guns taken to the property room out of arrests. Some of them are coming back stolen, but a lot of them were not
Interesting... What seems to be the source or sources for these other ones? Strawbuying, illegally imorted from out-of-state, or what?
Not all stolen guns get reported (I seem to recall reading that a large percentage of stolen guns never make it into NICS because they either go unreported, or the victims don't know the serial numbers ... I don't have the serial numbers of most of my guns memorized).
Lots of people buy guns when they are legally able to do so, and then sell them down the road for rock or whatever when they slip into drug addiction and start hanging with bad people.
I almost sold a gun to a convicted felon once ... was a guy I worked with. He asked me if I had any extra guns because he was thinking of getting one for the house ... I had a pistol I considered selling to him when I flippantly asked him if he had any felonies ... he said he did (but since it was a non-violent felony he figured it didn't count). I told him its a good thing he didn't try to buy a gun from a gun shop or he'd have been in trouble when they did the background check. I found out years later that he'd gotten into the drugs again and had gone downhill. He was a decent fellow when I worked with him but he turned into street trash. Now he has some violent felony convictions and last I heard was sitting in jail after he robbed someone.
(no, I didn't sell him the gun)