Each time you buy a gun from a gun shop, a copy of the transaction including the manufacture of the gun along with the serial number goes to the appropriate office in Washington, D.C. Plus they have the dealer’s yellow sheet, white sheet now.
Wrong. See 18 U.S.C. 926.
“No such rule or regulation prescribed after the date of the enactment of the Firearms Owners’ Protection Act may require that records required to be maintained under this chapter or any portion of the contents of such records, be recorded at or transferred to a facility owned, managed, or controlled by the United States or any State or any political subdivision thereof, nor that any system of registration of firearms, firearms owners, or firearms transactions or dispositions be established. Nothing in this section expands or restricts the Secretary’s authority to inquire into the disposition of any firearm in the course of a criminal investigation.”
“Each time you buy a gun from a gun shop, a copy of the transaction including the manufacture of the gun along with the serial number goes to the appropriate office in Washington, D.C. Plus they have the dealer’s yellow sheet, white sheet now.”
What if you bought the gun 2nd hand from the first guy who bought it?
What if you bought an 80% receiver and made you own, non-serial numbered, rifle or pistol? This is a HUGE market with dozens of manufacturers who regularly run out of stock.
It isn’t quite so simple as you think, especially for people who WANT to have firearms off paper and have been working toward that goal for years.
When did 4473s start going to DC for dealers still in business?