epijunkie67
Member
I bought a couple of new guns recently and the experience got me to wondering something. I purchased a couple of handguns from an online dealer and had them shipped to my local guy. He doesn't mind doing transfers since he considers it a good deal for him. He's a smaller shop, basically a one man deal, so nothing fancy. But a good honest place to shop.
So he gets my guns in and I head down for the paperwork. Fill everything out and he calls in my NICS check on the phone. Like I said, a smaller shop so he doesn't use an automated system. After giving them my personal information he then has to give them the make, model, and serial number for both my purchases. And I got to thinking later, why?
These were new guns so no chance of them having being stolen. I thought the point of a NICS check was to make sure I am allowed to buy a gun? Once they have my ID all that needs to happen is for him to say "He's purchasing a new gun" and leave it at that. Regardless of if I am buying 1 gun or 12 guns, as long as they are new NICS doesn't need to know anything about what I'm buying.
If they aren't "supposed" to be keeping a record of purchases what's the point in asking for serial numbers?
So he gets my guns in and I head down for the paperwork. Fill everything out and he calls in my NICS check on the phone. Like I said, a smaller shop so he doesn't use an automated system. After giving them my personal information he then has to give them the make, model, and serial number for both my purchases. And I got to thinking later, why?
These were new guns so no chance of them having being stolen. I thought the point of a NICS check was to make sure I am allowed to buy a gun? Once they have my ID all that needs to happen is for him to say "He's purchasing a new gun" and leave it at that. Regardless of if I am buying 1 gun or 12 guns, as long as they are new NICS doesn't need to know anything about what I'm buying.
If they aren't "supposed" to be keeping a record of purchases what's the point in asking for serial numbers?