Pawn shop score"

[criticalbass]

So how do I as a citizen check to see if a weapon is listed as stolen. Last time I checked, some time ago, one couldn't do that unless he was a law enforcement person. Has that changed? I hope so. Let me know.

Back on the original topic, great deal! CB

 

[ssgrock3]

If he were ever to use that weapon in defense and it came up stolen, his defense case now has more holes in it than the aggressor.

how so?

 

[n423]

So how do I as a citizen check to see if a weapon is listed as stolen. Last time I checked, some time ago, one couldn't do that unless he was a law enforcement person. Has that changed? I hope so. Let me know.

I was wondering the same thing. Thought only LEO or pawnshops could check.....

 

[Seedy]

not sure how easy it is, but a leo can run a check, but gun must be in their possession. I have had one done, but i knew the detective as a friend, and he took the gun, and gave it back a couple of days later.

This was after you had already purchased and taken possesion of the weapon...yes?

What would have happened if the gun WAS hot? I'm guessing you wouldn't have gotten it back.

Considering that these "amazing deals" are selling in just a few minutes of them being offered on CL or even OSA classifieds how can the average civie check the status of a given weapon BEFORE making an offer on it?

 

[adluginb]

You can't run a gun as a citizen. Have to have a LEO run it and it has to be in their possession. Then if it is stolen they have to keep it. Nothing else would happen. I'm sure they would ask you where you got it, but all you have to say is private sale or gunshow. No you don't have to have proof. There is no law in Oklahoma that prevents you from doing that so it doesn't make you not "smart" to not run a gun before buying it. Private sales are private, keep em that way.

 

[870WingBlaster]

it makes you not smart if you pay anything for it and then give it to a cop with the chance of never seeing it again

 

[adluginb]

it makes you not smart if you pay anything for it and then give it to a cop with the chance of never seeing it again

True....

 

[Seedy]

Only reason I did the one I had purchased, as it was a Desert Eagle in .50 that I could not stand, but I bought it for about 1/2 retail and was going to put it for sale on Gb. It was clean and I sold it for retail.

Question: if a person is buying a firearm with the intention of reselling it for a profit, at what point do they cross the "line" of private collector into dealer?

I know that the only person to go to jail after the Columbine tradegy was the person who sold the older boy (who was 18 years old and "legally" able to buy the long gun himself) the shotgun. The ~<$15 he made on the deal sent him to prison. I don't remember if it was under Federal or Colorado State law that he was tried and convicted under...

 

[338Shooter]

At what point does it go from a good deal to taking advantage of someone?

 

[Seedy]

At what point does it go from a good deal to taking advantage of someone?

That's a moral/ethics question you have to answer for yourself