Frohickey
Member
The dealer is not full of *crap*.
Police officers, most definitely the ones in LAPD can run a person's name and date of birth, and that is plenty of information to get the pistols/handguns the person has bought or sold, as well as the serial numbers of each one. There would be a header in front of each gun that tells the disposition of the gun as well.
This is the way it is in California, since I used to work for the LAPD. Heck, before it was available through the terminal in every LAPD squad car, I had LAPD officers calling me via their cellphone or via a payphone asking me to run such-and-such a name with a certain DOB and to save the printout or read them the serial number of the guns found in the hit.
The LAPD officers used to ask for me by name (to run QG queries) because I knew my gun makes and models and they could describe the various logos and stampmarks on the guns to me over the phone. At one point, I had LAPD officers calling me from other neighboring divisions to do the same.
Police officers, most definitely the ones in LAPD can run a person's name and date of birth, and that is plenty of information to get the pistols/handguns the person has bought or sold, as well as the serial numbers of each one. There would be a header in front of each gun that tells the disposition of the gun as well.
This is the way it is in California, since I used to work for the LAPD. Heck, before it was available through the terminal in every LAPD squad car, I had LAPD officers calling me via their cellphone or via a payphone asking me to run such-and-such a name with a certain DOB and to save the printout or read them the serial number of the guns found in the hit.
The LAPD officers used to ask for me by name (to run QG queries) because I knew my gun makes and models and they could describe the various logos and stampmarks on the guns to me over the phone. At one point, I had LAPD officers calling me from other neighboring divisions to do the same.