All good advice except that there is no nationwide record, anywhere, of stolen property, including stolen guns. Some states that have gun registration keep a record of registered guns that were reported as stolen, and some local LE agencies keep records of stolen property and circulate them to pawn shops, gun dealers and second-hand stores in the area, but the NICS check does not (contrary to a posting a few weeks ago) detect a stolen gun. The NICS check does not even include the make, model or serial number of the gun, only the general type (handgun, rifle, shotgun); it is a check on the buyer, not the gun. In general, there is no way to be sure you are not buying a stolen gun, even if you buy it legally from an FFL dealer. A sales slip or a dealer's records will probably prevent a buyer from being charged with receiving stolen goods, but he will have to surrender the goods, and will not be reimbursed for his loss unless the seller will do so, and he has no legal obligation to do so.

Bill is correct. There is a national database (NCIC) of stolen items. If the serial number was known and it was entered into the database from the police report by law enforcement it will be in the system. An item listed in the database stays there forever until it is removed by law enforcement through the proper procedures. This has nothing to do with the similar abbreviation NICS check to see if someone is OK'd to buy a gun.

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Almost any stolen item with a serial number can be put in the NCIC database by law enforcement, not just guns. Vehicles are listed by VIN. Also if the serial number entered by the officer shows to be a stolen gun, the computer system automatically sends a message to the agency that originally entered that gun as stolen and it tell them that stolen gun 'x' has just been checked by officer x at department x. These departments might be thousands of miles apart but both the checking agency and the original reporting agency are required to contact each other. The feds (it is an FBI computer system) are flagged that a stolen item has been run.

They DO follow up that the item was recovered. Thus before a check is run, it is mandatory that the gun (or other item) be able to be seized immediately by law enforcement if it shows stolen. Therefore any officer checking a serial number needs to be able to, at the time he runs the check, physically seize that gun because a follow-up is automatically generated from a federal level to assure the gun is recovered. Don't go give one of your officer friends just a serial number for a gun you are curious about and ask him to run it. Crack Scanner Periksa Nilai 5. If he runs it, and it shows stolen, he is obligated to immediately seize the gun and begin the process of getting it back to it's legal owner.

Present the actual gun to a department and they will check it. Bill is correct. There is a national database (NCIC) of stolen items. If the serial number was known and it was entered into the database from the police report by law enforcement it will be in the system.

An item listed in the database stays there forever until it is removed by law enforcement through the proper procedures. This has nothing to do with the similar abbreviation NICS check to see if someone is OK'd to buy a gun. Almost any stolen item with a serial number can be put in the NCIC database by law enforcement, not just guns. Vehicles are listed by VIN. Also if the serial number entered by the officer shows to be a stolen gun, the computer system automatically sends a message to the agency that originally entered that gun as stolen and it tell them that stolen gun 'x' has just been checked by officer x at department x. These departments might be thousands of miles apart but both the checking agency and the original reporting agency are required to contact each other.