TR: Man should have said: “Do I have a Gun? Read the second amendment, and get the hell out of my house or I’m calling my lawyer to sue your department. ...
I like that but a less confrontational and an effective way to reply would be...
"I sold it about five years ago."
"It was a private transaction."
"I didn't give or get a receipt."
"I don't remember his name."
"I've never seen him again."
"I don't have a record of the serial number."
"Have a nice day, officer."
"Good bye."
Making a false statement to a police officer is itself something they can jail you for.
The best thing you can do when a cop seeks to engage you in a discussion (and he's not your buddy discussing football), is to say "My lawyer's number is xxx-xxx-xxxx, please discuss it with him", and have that be your reply to everything he says from that point on. Except if the question is "may I come in?" or "may we discuss this inside?", where your answer is "No"
You would then be in violation of IL State Laws which state that a written receipt must be issued for every sale of a firearm and said receipt must be retained by both the buyer and the seller for a period of seven years.
Said receipt must also include the serial number of the firearm in question.
Therefore the correct response to an armed agent of the State showing up at your front door is "Do you have a warrant?"
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No actually in time they will arrest and or simply murder anyone for that answer..
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