Lost gun at Jay's FOUND IT!!

[Duckyou]

I hope you find it.

I returned from the range (ERML) one day and later received a phone call asking if I was missing a gun. my response was "God, I hope not." Fortunately it wasn't mine.

The answer to that is always YES! Let me come out and look at it to make sure it is mine.

Examine the serial number (or markings and scratches for non-serialized) then come up with a good reason why you remember the markings or the serial number.

It will be on Armslist or a pawnshop by now. I would never keep a gun I found. Ever. Bad karma.

Unless I find it in the bathroom. Good karma to keep those.

 

[RHINOWSO]

Unless I find it in the bathroom. Good karma to keep those.

Yeah, those cops guns left in the bathroom are fair game IMO.

 

[Duckyou]

Yeah, those cops guns left in the bathroom are fair game IMO.

The one I found was some idiot woman at a birthday party with a bunch of kids.

(She did get it back empty, but after her saying that it happens all the time I knew I should have kept it).

 

[IronBeard]

Dang OP, I watched this thread hoping to see you got your gun back. When I lived up that way, there were some on those ranges I just didn't want to be around. Freedom is one thing, but as others have posted, report it lost/missing and CYA. In today's paranoid, anti-gun environment, if it can be linked/tied to you, it will.

 

[Little Jack]

FWIW concerning the "registration"....

If you fill out a paper 4473, the SN and your information are on that form together. That stays with the FFL while they're in business. Unless there's a trace, multiple sales form or the shop volunteers the info to someone else, nobody else should know.

If LE is checking a SN, that doesn't involve a trace, they're most likely checking to see if it's reported stolen/lost, not that it's "registered" to you.

Anything digital.... I would assume that is stored somewhere indefinitely.

Does not apply to "ban" states.

Hope the OP's gun shows up.

 

[Welldoya]

So what’s the story?
Where was it found?

 

[Duckyou]

So what’s the story?
Where was it found?

Agreed!

Was it in your cleaning box?

 

[stage20]

Inquiring minds......

 

[FrankT]

gun has been found

Glad you found it Mike, I lost one like that and have never forgiven myself

 

[tros6t]

Someone left a Rem 7mm rifle as the Santa Rosa Shooting Center a couple years back. I think they eventually found the owner! I never asked.

 

[tros6t]

As for registering, while it is actually illegal for the government to keep records of purchases, it's also illegal to allow people to cross the border and then give them money and transport them to cities in the U.S. My point? They've been tracking firearm purchases for a while. They're pretty much tracking all purchases. Those multi-billion dollar facilities they built to track everything is and has been tracking everything. Some will argue, if they track everything, then in effect, they are tracking nothing. That is sort of true, except with the computers and software they have at their disposal, they can convert all of that "data" into information in a matter of seconds!

 

[TaiKoon]

As for registering, while it is actually illegal for the government to keep records of purchases, it's also illegal to allow people to cross the border and then give them money and transport them to cities in the U.S. My point? They've been tracking firearm purchases for a while. They're pretty much tracking all purchases. Those multi-billion dollar facilities they built to track everything is and has been tracking everything. Some will argue, if they track everything, then in effect, they are tracking nothing. That is sort of true, except with the computers and software they have at their disposal, they can convert all of that "data" into information in a matter of seconds!

That was pretty much my point from the get go. It might not be “registered” in the normal sense but once both the name and the firearms SN are run through a federal database somewhere it isn’t hard to connects to dots. Personally I could careless about being tracked. I spent enough time working for Uncle Sam and paying taxes that it just doesn’t phase me anymore.

 

[stage20]

Personally I could careless about being tracked. I spent enough time working for Uncle Sam and paying taxes that it just doesn’t phase me anymore.

This is what they want from all of us. They are slowly getting their way.

 

[McMillan]

This is what they want from all of us. They are slowly getting their way.

Or at least a false 80 million of us anyway…

 

[tros6t]

That was pretty much my point from the get go. It might not be “registered” in the normal sense but once both the name and the firearms SN are run through a federal database somewhere it isn’t hard to connects to dots. Personally I could careless about being tracked. I spent enough time working for Uncle Sam and paying taxes that it just doesn’t phase me anymore.

I agree mostly but the people “in charge” now are not like any we've had before! That’s all I’ll say, except watch Ga and Pa! There’s gonna be some 2020 type action as these two seat are critical!

 

[Welldoya]

I still haven’t heard where the lost gun was found.

 

[ratio411]

That was pretty much my point from the get go. It might not be “registered” in the normal sense but once both the name and the firearms SN are run through a federal database somewhere it isn’t hard to connects to dots. Personally I could careless about being tracked. I spent enough time working for Uncle Sam and paying taxes that it just doesn’t phase me anymore.

The background check does not identify the firearm. All they tell the government is handgun, long gun, or multi. The firearm is not registered in any way. The only thing tying the firearm and you is the records on file in the gun store. The government has to hoof it to the gun store (I believe with a warrant) to get the purchaser’s name.

 

[stage20]

The background check does not identify the firearm. All they tell the government is handgun, long gun, or multi. The firearm is not registered in any way. The only thing tying the firearm and you is the records on file in the gun store. The government has to hoof it to the gun store (I believe with a warrant) to get the purchaser’s name.

They can find you if they need to. That's close enough to being registered to me.

 

[stage20]

I still haven’t heard where the lost gun was found.

I had this on my mind this morning. Don't know why

 

[RidgeRunner]

Probably too embarrassed to say. lol