When Beta comes to collect your firearms with an inventory list provided by the BATFE, how do you explain the missing inventory?
Serious question.
You mean the ones I inherited from relatives years ago, or the ones I’ve bought from individuals years ago?
Remember that “No Questions Asked” gun buyback? That’s where they went.
“It Fell off the boat during a Trump Boat Parade in 2020”.
Give them a map of the approximate spot.
Gave it to some guy named Corn Pop.
Must have been sold to a private individual, cash sale. Met the guy once, at a gun range, car show, gun show, boat show, festival, etc.
I sold in private transactions a few firearms. Legal in Wisconsin.
I am not required to keep a record. I do only sell to people who have a Concealed Carry license though. No 4473 form.
Bill of Sale from November, 2020. Day after the election.
Well, depending on IF all your guns were 4473’d. Did you buy them in a different state than you now live? If from private sale and the original owner points you out, then the boating accident comes into play. I guess those would be OR guns. Off record?
If Beta comes to my house, I give him Mom’s old 6-shot .25 tiny pistol and check the box on the form that I complied. Everything else that they might know about was lost in a boating accident and will not be stored on premise.
Make out a bunch of forms indicating they were sold. Years ago.
Not to be incindiary, but when Beta comes to collect your weapons, that’s your *final* opportunity to determine whether you’re simply a weapons hoarder forever, or if you actually own them for the defense of liberty, yours and others’.
Meanwhile, millions of other Americans will be simultaneously asked to make that same decision. Don’t expect them to make a decision that you won’t.
Why even answer?
With lead
When Beta comes for mine it will be taken from my cold dead hands and I will be knee deep is Modern Sporting Rifle Brass.
“Serious question.”
I hate that we are now living in a time where these discussions are even necessary.
But i thank you for clarity, purpose, and great ideas.
Boating accident...
I actually had two former students steal guns from my home. They skipped school and went around to school district employees stealing guns. They did not steal everything. We did not notice the ones stolen. This was 30 years ago. We did not have a comprehensive list. They had worked for my husband and knew our home.
Where is the BATF going to get an inventory list? Here in Arkansas - there is no “gun registration”. Yes, I realize that any firearm purchased from an FFL likely has a paper trail somewhere (usually in the dealer’s safe, but possibly the illegal digital trail from the background check - though that doesn’t’ have the serial number).
Now - for the poor saps in states with gun registration... sucks for yall.
It may be a serious question, but I don't know how realistic it is. Folks assume the goobermint has some kind of massive data base somewhere, with a complete list of everyone's firearms purchases through FFLs, going back to when they bought their first .22 rifle from the hardware store. The last I heard, ATF was years behind on processing records from expired/surrendered/deceased FFLs; apparently there are hundreds (maybe thousands?) of cargo containers stuffed with stored/unprocessed FFL records. And even if they eliminated that backlog, the goobermint inventory wouldn't ever be current, complete, or correct...