Vendors at gunshows filing off serial numbers

[Officers'Wife]

Interesting, I've only been to two gun shows, one in Indiana the other in Kentucky. In both a fair percentage of the 'customers', onlookers, browsers or whatever were law enforcement. Considering that a local sheriff's office would get beaucoup brownie points for such a bust your prof's claim could be arrested for vagrancy as it has no visible means of support.

 

[22-rimfire]

Never seen a defaced serial number at a gun show on a firearm. I have been to MANY gun shows. Your professor does not know what he's talking about.

He mentioned the "gunshow loophole". There is no loophole. All dealers have to abide by both state and federal law. Of private sales are legal in the state, again there is no loophole. Folks just buying and selling their personal weapons.

 

[alfack]

Many people that do teach are ignorant. They spend so much time, in the hallowed halls, with their nose in books, studying one single subject, that they end up without any common sense or base of reality. All they have to go by is what others tell them. No personal experience to confirm or deny statements.

 

[dev_null]

Take the issue up with the Dean of the College of what ever Criminal Science falls under. You may be surprised by the result.

Like your final grade for the course, for instance. =:-0

 

[kd7nqb]

Your professor is an idiot not surprising since he is an academic after all. (I say this as a recent graduate) I have seen one gun with an obliterated serial number and it was purchased by a guy under shady conditions ON THE STREET not at a gun show.

 

[rbernie]

Too many posts needed deletin' to keep this one open. I trust that the OP has been addressed - filing off serial numbers is in violation of federal law and that is almost never seen (due to the lack of profit and the potential risk of the activity).