Posted on 04/15/2022 11:44:57 AM PDT by rellimpank
Edited on 04/15/2022 12:17:01 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
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I missed how Mr. James’ pistol having a serial number prevented the subway attack, can someone explain it to me ?
So the fact that a “ghost gun” wasn’t used in the crime confirms that ghost guns are the problem. Uh huh.
When the perp is a black man, the media focus is ALWAYS on the gun. The MSM have totally ignored the racist motive for this shooting, something that would be front and center if the shooter had been a white racist.
Someone violates the rights of others via aggressive acts of violence, and everyone else’s rights are open to being violated?
restricting the right to keep and bear arms - making the world safe for free-range Democrats
Just in case the FIB missed the Subway Attacker's license, credit cards, and U-Haul keys he left at the scene, then tracing the serial number of the gun he left at the scene cracked this case wide open...
Beware whenever the media asks itself a rhetorical question.
How many people have been killed in Afghanistan by the hundreds of thousands of weapons and ammunition abandoned by this grimy, filthy, cretinous administration?
Wait till THOSE guns start showing up in the US
The leftist media, the current regime and the political left has been stoking this hatred of white people in the black community. They are all accomplices.
Exactly right. If the fault doesn’t lie with the gun, it’s that impetuous SUV. If we lose our Second Amendment rights, it will be due in no small part to the criminality of black men.
There’s no national database of firearm ownership. Aren’t
most guns ghost guns?
Some states keep data, but I don’t believe they all do.
Did the ATF &E tell you that?
Why don’t you rebut my comment if you have some to do it with?
It would save us both time.
Every newly manufactured firearm in about the last fifty years was required to be sold by an FFL (Federal Firearms Licensee).
If the authorities wish to identify the original buyer of such a firearm they contact the manufacturer who identifies the distributor. The distributor identifies the FFL who sold the firearm. Then the authorities contact the FFL who identifies the original purchaser.
In most states private sales are not recorded by the government. That is not true in states like California where ALL firearm transfers must go through an FFL.
If an FFL goes out of business, they are required to send their records of gun sales to the federal government.
The net result of all this infringement is that the government has access to all the information that would constitute a database of gun owners. As time passes the completeness of this database will only grow.
Note that the effectiveness of this database is completely reliant on having serial numbers on firearms. If this requirement disappeared I would never own a firearm with a serial number.
This is why the anti-gunners are practically out of their minds over the recent popularity of so-called "ghost guns"; that is, guns which have no serial number.
There is something else we both might have missed. Perhaps
you can explain why it isn’t feasible.
Individuals have to have a background check, since back into
the 80s. Are we sure no weapon information was provided at
the time of background check.
BTW: Thanks for the detailed response.
Any dealer that closes shop must send the logbook to the ATF&E.
Same applies to the 4473s at the POS.
*The Clinton administration closed thousands of FFLs.
FBI background checks for POS have been saved though current law does not allow so.
The ATF&E is not on record as having ever destroyed any returned FFL logbook information nor 4473 information.
California requires that all firearm transfers be done through an FFL. The California DOJ requires the FFL to file paperwork that does identify the firearm. This filing begins the ten day waiting period legislated by California and allows time for California to conduct its own background check.
Thus, for California, the answer to your question is that we are sure that California does have information regarding the firearms for all transfers and keeps those records indefinitely. This was initially true for only handguns but I believe it now includes long guns as well.
I believe that most states do not maintain such records and that private sales between residents of such states are not recorded.
Purchase of new firearms in such states must go through an FFL. The FFLs are required to use the NICS (National Instant Criminal Background Check System). My understanding is that this involves use of a telephone at the FFL to provide identifying information on the purchaser but that no information about the firearm is provided. The typical response time is a few minutes, I think, and the FFL is allowed to transfer the firearm if there is no response for several days (two ?).
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