I got a phone call from a police station yesterday. Seems a rifle I bought in 2002 was recently used in a murder and was traced back to me. How did they trace it back to me? I believe it was a gun show purchase and I probably bought it after an NCIC instacheck and evidently they keep track of what you are buying when they run the check. Everything since then was bought using my CCW and filling out the 4473 (right form number?) and I don't believe that information is entered anywhere.
Office was pretty nice, wanted to know what happened to it and I told him it was probably part of the 46 rifles that DFACS took from my nephew (I was storing stuff at his dads house and when his dad died he took the stuff I had and all his dads stuff and when he got in trouble with DFACS for having a loaded gun in the house with laying around with 2 little children there and two felons living there, they had a search warrant, arrested everyone and took all the guns. Part of the plea deal to get them to drop most of the charges was that the Madison (oops should I say their name) County police department kept all the guns. I'm sure none of them got taken home and are all sitting in the evidence locker (right). Anyway, that's what I told the officer, he talked to my nephew and that's what he told them so who knows.
Anyway, I asked if I could have the rifle back after the trail (they have the shooter) and he asked if I really wanted a rifle that had been used in a murder and I told him that I'd like to have it, take my bandsaw and cut the barrel into 2 inch pieces, use my torch on the action and the litter the Chattahoochee River with the bits rather than think it might come out of the evidence room at some future date and be used in another crime.
So, bottom line, they say their is no gun registration but there are guns registered when you buy them, guessing through the NCIC checks.
You never know when one is going to pop its head up again. In my life I have probably bought, sold and traded 250 or 300 firearms. Do I feel responsible for what happens to them after they are out of my hands? No more so than when I sell a knife, a chainsaw or a car. I have no control over what the buyer does with it, keeps it, uses it, sells it or loses it.
End of not so much a vent as an observation.
Klif
Office was pretty nice, wanted to know what happened to it and I told him it was probably part of the 46 rifles that DFACS took from my nephew (I was storing stuff at his dads house and when his dad died he took the stuff I had and all his dads stuff and when he got in trouble with DFACS for having a loaded gun in the house with laying around with 2 little children there and two felons living there, they had a search warrant, arrested everyone and took all the guns. Part of the plea deal to get them to drop most of the charges was that the Madison (oops should I say their name) County police department kept all the guns. I'm sure none of them got taken home and are all sitting in the evidence locker (right). Anyway, that's what I told the officer, he talked to my nephew and that's what he told them so who knows.
Anyway, I asked if I could have the rifle back after the trail (they have the shooter) and he asked if I really wanted a rifle that had been used in a murder and I told him that I'd like to have it, take my bandsaw and cut the barrel into 2 inch pieces, use my torch on the action and the litter the Chattahoochee River with the bits rather than think it might come out of the evidence room at some future date and be used in another crime.
So, bottom line, they say their is no gun registration but there are guns registered when you buy them, guessing through the NCIC checks.
You never know when one is going to pop its head up again. In my life I have probably bought, sold and traded 250 or 300 firearms. Do I feel responsible for what happens to them after they are out of my hands? No more so than when I sell a knife, a chainsaw or a car. I have no control over what the buyer does with it, keeps it, uses it, sells it or loses it.
End of not so much a vent as an observation.
Klif
