How To Find Out If Someone Has Registered A Gun

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Is there away to findout what guns are registered in my proper name?
What exercise you hateful by "registered"? The US doesn't take firearms registration at the national level. Any "registration" would take to be at the state or local level. As far as finding out what guns are "registered" to you lot in a given jurisdiction would involve contacting whatsoever bureau handles such registrations in your area and asking them. That would at the very least be a starting point. There is no universal database where you can actively search all jurisdictions at once to see what, if any, firearms are "registered" to you....nor would most firearm owners be happy about such a database
My country (NY) has registration of handguns. That said, I can't imagine (A) not knowing what handguns I own or (B) someone else registering a handgun in my name.
Not certain what problem you're trying to solve.
Wiki says:So I'd imagine you lot could try contacting the CA DOJ and asking if they'll give you a list of what's registered to yous.
Otherwise, unless you've had the misfortune of living in one of the few other states which registers guns, OR if you own NFA weapons registered with the BATFE, in that location isn't any registry of what y'all own.
How are firearms traced dorsum to the owner when used in a crime? I assume it is traced from the industry, to the gun store, then to the original owner...am I correct?
I wrote this a while back:
Pretty much what I suspected, thanks.
When Arthur Bremer shot George Wallace in 1972, steps one - 5 traced Bremer's gun to Bremer in very brusk order.
Lesson one, if y'all are an assassin, do not buy a gun in your ain name.
Lesson ii, if you lot sell a gun, get a bill of sale in case the purchaser is a crook.
That's 1 of the reasons I like C&R'south and why I take a FFL03. If the buyer or seller will not requite me the data I need for my bound book (and let me copy it down) then there is no deal.
Years ago in Michigan
I got a call from a Sheriffs deputy I knew. He wanted to know if I all the same had my $23.00 Herter's single half-dozen revolver in my possession. I asked why. He said a gas station in boondocks that only had girls working there pumping gas had been robbed. The robber was carrying a 22 revolver and had shot the gal in the leg with it.

Told the deputy I would have to get look equally I had non had information technology out of the gun cabinet in a year or more than. It was still there and so I was in the clear.

I guess Michigan does keep rails of who got a allow to buy a pistol. My Herter'due south is registered every bit a Herter'due south Wasica. Wasica is the town where Herter'south was earlier the tornado put them out of business not the name of the gun. I did not notice it when the gal at the sheriff'southward section gave me my permit.

As far as how many guns I have that are in the system it is few as virtually were private sales.
Allow me go this straight... someone shot someone with a .22 revolver and they started calling local guys on record as having endemic i?
(Hey, a guy was hit with a car. Let'due south phone call all the people we know with cars. That should narrow it the <flip> down!)

I call back that pretty much sums upward why these systems don't make whatsoever sense at all.
Fella's;
It'southward true that there is no national registration of firearms - yet. But, if or when that legislation is passed, the 4473 form that's filled out with every FFL purchase these days volition exist the starting betoken for amassing the registration data. The established fact that firearms can exist traced via the 4473 starting point is proof of that. Truthful, there are holes in the 4473 organisation that you could wing congress through at this time. But, endmost those holes is just a matter of passing legislation to practice so.

Peradventure the unmarried most effective indicate available to us to prevent such legislation is the instance of the late and unlamented Canadian firearms registration scheme. The compliance factor was, of course, unknown just best guess is maybe thirty to (highly unlikely) l%. The monetary cost over-runs are a matter of public record and were huge, several hundreds of percentage higher up projections. I don't accept the figures at hand, but they're easily found. Therefore, in these times of thin Federal availability of funds, to propose a massively expensive national firearms registration deed should be political suicide. But, if national media supports it without accurately presenting both sides, or giving both sides equal fourth dimension, you lot can bet your last .22 circular that there's a good chance it'll be put earlier our elected representatives with intent to pass.

I have no problem with breaking the 4473 concatenation whenever I can do so. If you won't sell to me privately because I won't provide you with a driver'southward license number, so what? The next guy volition go my money and we'll both exist happy and supporting the idea of the second amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America equally written IMHO. Call back, the second doesn't allow restriction of firearms ownership under any circumstances, as written. And it finer says that that broad open right shall not exist fooled with either. Or, Wyatt Earp in Dodge Urban center Kansas was a Federal felon.

900F

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Your interpretation of the 2d amendment doesn't seem to agree with the court's interpretation. Kind of like challenge that to you "scarlet" is really "blue" no matter what anyone else says.
At present that you mention that, how is it that the Left Liberal Socialists politicians and the Left Liberal Leaning Media started getting Republican voting states and areas shown in ruddy, the color of the USSR flag, Chairman Mao'south book, and the colour used to announce enemy forces in war machine maneuvers?
In my state, CA, registering the gun is office of the purchase steps one must go through. I asked the question because I wanted to know if I tin confirm for myself what is out there in the records against what I actually own.
Lesson two, Bill of Auction: this can also open up you up to bug.
If you practice get that information, there are a couple of possible outcomes:
1. Their records match upward with what yous actually ain. Great.
ii. They show yous owning guns that you no longer own. At present you lot have some explaining to do as to who you sold them to and why y'all didn't go through the "proper channels" when yous sold them.
3. You own more guns than they prove are registered. Now you have fifty-fifty more explaining to exercise in terms of ownership an unregistered firearm.

Makes me glad I live in Utah.

I've never understood the bill-of-sale thing in terms of proving that y'all no longer endemic a gun in relation to a police investigation. I've discussed it with several Detectives and 1 really good firearms Lawyer (all in Utah, other states may be different) and if it the chain-of-ownership leads to a non-restricted person who no longer owns the gun, there isn't a whole lot that they can do. It isn't upward to the "no-longer-owner" to show that he didn't commit the crime. The burden is on the state to prove that the "no-longer-possessor" has committed the crime. On the other paw, if the person had a record of having sold the gun to a restricted person, it will open a serious tin of worms.

Matt
Exactly - I practice not do BOS on FTF individual party deals. Greenbacks talks, gun walks
Fella's;
And here's proof positive as to why our educator's split reading skills and reading comprehension as two unlike categories. "remember the second doesn't let restriction of firearms ownership under any circumstances, as written." Accent now added by me at this fourth dimension.

It is quite truthful that several successive judgments rendered since the passing of the Bill Of Rights have absolutely changed the rights granted past the second amendment. But those decisions practice not alter the original intent, only the current application. I of those judicial decisions at present prompting the O.P. to accept to ask a question that would not exist necessary if the courts had not interfered with what the framer'southward of the 2nd desired. Please read George Mason and research the Federalist Papers if you doubt me.

900F
Yup the same mode it was done with Lee Harvey Oswald'southward rifle, using normal, pre-reckoner business records: manufacturer/importer to seller to heir-apparent, before the GCA added an extra layer of paperwork to harass gun buyers.
CA must be different from NY in that regard. Handgun owners in NY accept paperwork in their possession that lists all handguns currently registered to them. You lot have to deport it, along with your permit, when you're carrying a handgun. I'k supposed to contact the sheriff's part when I sell a handgun, in order to go information technology "off my let." I ever practice that ASAP, for obvious reasons.
No ane could annals a gun in my proper noun unless they got a hold of my allow and could alter the pic to resemble themselves before they go in to register the gun.
Indiana don't accept no steenking registration!
> (Hey, a guy was hit with a car. Let'southward call all the people we know
> with cars. That should narrow it the <flip> downwards!)
You lot recall?

One evening a deputy sheriff came and arrested my mother for a hit-and-run vehicle collision.

A witness had reported a white Ford van with a license plate that started with the letter "B". My mother's white Ford Mustang was evidently a shut enough lucifer to make an arrest.

My Dad had to hire a lawyer and make bail. Birthdays and Christmas were thin that yr, and at that place was no family vacation the adjacent year.

Lawyers and bondsmen cost money, and it had to come up from somewhere.
AG has a form for that:
Automated Firearms System (AFS) Request for Firearm Records (BOF 053)
AFS is reputed to exist incomplete and at times inaccurate. No long guns purchased before January 1 2014 will announced in what is returned, unless you voluntarily registered them; DROS did not collect that info until this year.