ColdCoffeeMug
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I'm a criminal justice student at a university here in Florida. Currently, I'm enrolled in a class designed to evaluate and make recommendations on a large multifaceted program designed to reduce crime. This week's discussion focused on gun laws and their effects on gun crime. The professor was discussing "the gun show loophole." (his words, not mine) Florida allows face to face transfers without completing background checks. In any event, he mentioned gun shows and the lack background checks and that, "Anyone call waltz into these places and purchase a firearm." He then stated that because of the lack of background checks that, "vendors routinely file the serial numbers off of firearms to avoid having them traced." I asked him to clarify because I didn't understand. I told him that doing that, even the possession of a firearm with an altered or removed serial number was a major felony. He pretty much laughed at me and then when a graduate student, in his 30's, mentioned that he'd been shooting and attending gun shows for almost twenty years and never came across a firearm with defaced serial numbers the professor said that apparently the other student and I must associate with a small group of "virtuous gun dealers." Despite the obvious demands for his contact information which I'd rather not divulge, has anyone here ever come across defaced serial numbers at a gun show? It just seems pointless to do so in a state that doesn't require tracing anyway.