You might want to scrub serial numbers in online pix posts.

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Some time ago I bought a musket from an on-line auction. It was missing a lower band. When I tried to find that part on Google I found someone using the picture of the gun that I had bought to sell a probably fictitious musket on another auction site.
I don't put pictures of my guns online unless there are already copies posted online from someone else.
I had something similar occur. I rarely post pictures without scubbing now.
 
If you ever see me post a photo of (or even mention) a firearm online there’s one assumption you can make with 99% certainty: that’s a gun with a 4473 bearing my name.

The one exception is a really beat up 38/44 HD revolver from an Armslist seller that I had a discussion about on the S&W forum before buying. I figured since there were already forum posts tying me to the gun it wasn’t a big deal. You can’t see the SN but the gun is so ugly it’s easy to ID.
 
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How about red flag laws--would you want your worst enemy to know exactly what sort of firearm including the serial number you have? One of the keys to a good lie is to have a grain of truth in it such as an exact description of the gun that you "threatened" them with. Then how do you prove your innocence.

The answer is while you might not care now, the internet is forever, and you might have reason to care in the future.
A good friend of mine, a tech nut, once said: "Never post anything on line you are not willing and prepared to defend in court."

Good advice, Me thinks
 
If you ever see me post a photo of (or even mention) a firearm online there’s one assumption you can make with 99% certainty: that’s a gun with a 4473 bearing my name.

The one exception is a really beat up 38/44 HD revolver from an Armslist seller that I had a discussion about on the S&W forum before buying. I figured since there were already forum posts tying me to the gun it wasn’t a big deal. You can’t see the SN but the gun is so ugly it’s easy to ID.

It is not so much the idea that someone might claim that it is stolen or illegal but rather it could have secondary effects via doxxing or even swatting as evidence that you had a gun and threatened them. See this story, https://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article192244734.html as a tragic reminder. One of the reasons that Mas Ayoob and others recommend calling the police whenever you have a confrontation (armed or not) to call 911 to get your story in before a malicious liar has an opportunity to do so. Our legal system operates on the honor system that assumes people are telling the truth with them being punished for lying much later.

If you are innocent, you can end up like the poor old Mass. school crossing guard where a chance conversation made a waitress report him https://www.lifezette.com/2019/10/crossing-guard-veteran-gets-post-back/. He lost his firearm license as a result. In Tennessee, a newspaper editor with a hatred for concealed carry published a searchable map of people with one that set them up for theft and harassment by anti-gunners. https://www.gun-tests.com/news/news...emphis-Commericial-Tennessee-CHL_11144-1.html

Leftists are purposefully destroying people's lives because they do not believe that any regular citizen should have a gun. And a fair piece of them live on the internet patrolling for wrongthink and trying to get people fired or entangled in the legal system from their internet searches. Other problems are caused by malicious family members or random internet trolls that take offense to what you say or do. I fear those guys as much as wrongdoing by the police or national security apparatus and thus you should protect yourself online via protecting your privacy.
 
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One should probably not post any pictures of guns on the internet, serial numbers exposed or not. I'd suggest not even post anything on a gun forum, much less be an active member since your IP address is available to anyone with a computer and they can trace it back to your house. The mere mention that you have a gun or reloading equipment on the internet alone is more than enough to draw "the man" and droves of gun thieves to your front door.


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I’m kinda wondering how you exit your home with long guns or range equipment. Dark of night on a dead moon............ Joshing of course but you do sound cautious.
 
I just tried entering only the serial number on a pistol I bought June 2019, immediately goes to a gun transfer service the seller wanted to go with.

So ... in my opinion it’s true.
 
It is not so much the idea that someone might claim that it is stolen or illegal but rather it could have secondary effects via doxxing or even swatting as evidence that you had a gun and threatened them. See this story, https://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article192244734.html as a tragic reminder. One of the reasons that Mas Ayoob and others recommend calling the police whenever you have a confrontation (armed or not) to call 911 to get your story in before a malicious liar has an opportunity to do so. Our legal system operates on the honor system that assumes people are telling the truth with them being punished for lying much later.

If you are innocent, you can end up like the poor old Mass. school crossing guard where a chance conversation made a waitress report him https://www.lifezette.com/2019/10/crossing-guard-veteran-gets-post-back/. He lost his firearm license as a result. In Tennessee, a newspaper editor with a hatred for concealed carry published a searchable map of people with one that set them up for theft and harassment by anti-gunners. https://www.gun-tests.com/news/news...emphis-Commericial-Tennessee-CHL_11144-1.html

Leftists are purposefully destroying people's lives because they do not believe that any regular citizen should have a gun. And a fair piece of them live on the internet patrolling for wrongthink and trying to get people fired or entangled in the legal system from their internet searches. Other problems are caused by malicious family members or random internet trolls that take offense to what you say or do. I fear those guys as much as wrongdoing by the police or national security apparatus and thus you should protect yourself online via protecting your privacy.

Herein lies one of the advantages of living in a small town. I was the internship supervisor of the local police chief’s wife and was the 8th grade science teacher of the sheriff’s son. Half the deputies are former students. They already know I have guns.

I’m kinda wondering how you exit your home with long guns or range equipment. Dark of night on a dead moon............ Joshing of course but you do sound cautious.

25 or so years ago my house was robbed mid-day while I was at work. By the sheerest of lucky breaks they caught the guys and recovered my guns. They were complete strangers who just happened to be driving by while I was carrying rifles out to the truck on the way to sight them in prior to deer season. Once they knew I had guns they targeted me for a visit a few days later. I had to hunt with a borrowed rifle that year. A week after they were sentenced I was hit again, but fortunately the guns had not yet been returned from evidence. Clearly they had some friends in the same business.

To this day I wait until there’s no one on the road before I take a long gun out to the car. Lesson learned.
 
Everyone calls me paranoid, then I find out I’m right. I also hide my rifle cases or park in the garage.
And now I figure out I need to be even more careful.

Dang it!
I just showed off my Desert Eagle in a muzzle flash thread.

Hey. You guys don’t tell nobody, please?
I am a victim of my pride!:(
 
Funny that this video just popped up in my youtube suggested videos. It’s a Snowden interview by Rogan on this very subject. I’ve never had anything to do online with either.


 
While social media can be (is !) "bad", those of you using Windows 10 should also be wary. When 10 first came out, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org) nearly had a cow when they looked into it. Buried in the EULA is a clause that, IIRC, said MS could remotely access your computer, peruse your "My Documents" folder (and probably more !) and use whatever they want however they want. All they have to do is remove all the PII (Personally Identifiable Information). The problem is that it is virtually impossible to do that as remnants always remain.
 
While social media can be (is !) "bad", those of you using Windows 10 should also be wary. When 10 first came out, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org) nearly had a cow when they looked into it. Buried in the EULA is a clause that, IIRC, said MS could remotely access your computer, peruse your "My Documents" folder (and probably more !) and use whatever they want however they want. All they have to do is remove all the PII (Personally Identifiable Information). The problem is that it is virtually impossible to do that as remnants always remain.

That is why I use Linux for my general browsing system using an encrypted harddrive and only have a Windows machine to run certain non-controversial software such a video rendering and statistics. The microsoft boys will get mighty lonely with that. The professional version of Windows 10 though does have a way to shut it off because corporations do not want Uncle Bill looking through their stuff.
 
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