Absalom
SWCA Member, Absent Comrade
I need some questions answered by anyone actively trading firearms in California currently:
As an FFL-licensed business, if you take in a used handgun on consignment, as a trade, or buy it outright for re-sale,
a) are you required to run the gun to make sure it's clean/not stolen, or is there a voluntary process?
b) what is the exact procedure?
c) if you do, do you get any kind of confirmation, like a number or code, that would allow you to prove later that you did check the gun?
The background:
I bought a handgun from a gun store in SoCal on Gunbroker. When my transfer FFL here ran the required background check on the gun, Oregon State Police came back with an NCIC hit on this gun, a theft report from 1977 out of Florida; now there is a hold on the transfer, an OSP trooper is investigating and waiting to hear back from Florida.
The store manager in CA claims they ran the gun through the "California Department of Justice" and it came back clean when they got it in, but he has no proof of that and says he contacted DoJ and they can't give him anything that would show that either; this seems fishy to me. When we run a gun here, we get a confirmation number when it clears so we always have proof we did due diligence.
The whole thing may still turn out to be a case of mistaken identity or duplicate serial number (it's a pre-1968 straight numerical serial), but that doesn't change the fact that the NCIC report was out there and if they had run the gun they would have noticed.
So, can anyone enlighten me first-hand how this really works in California? I appreciate the input.
As an FFL-licensed business, if you take in a used handgun on consignment, as a trade, or buy it outright for re-sale,
a) are you required to run the gun to make sure it's clean/not stolen, or is there a voluntary process?
b) what is the exact procedure?
c) if you do, do you get any kind of confirmation, like a number or code, that would allow you to prove later that you did check the gun?
The background:
I bought a handgun from a gun store in SoCal on Gunbroker. When my transfer FFL here ran the required background check on the gun, Oregon State Police came back with an NCIC hit on this gun, a theft report from 1977 out of Florida; now there is a hold on the transfer, an OSP trooper is investigating and waiting to hear back from Florida.
The store manager in CA claims they ran the gun through the "California Department of Justice" and it came back clean when they got it in, but he has no proof of that and says he contacted DoJ and they can't give him anything that would show that either; this seems fishy to me. When we run a gun here, we get a confirmation number when it clears so we always have proof we did due diligence.
The whole thing may still turn out to be a case of mistaken identity or duplicate serial number (it's a pre-1968 straight numerical serial), but that doesn't change the fact that the NCIC report was out there and if they had run the gun they would have noticed.
So, can anyone enlighten me first-hand how this really works in California? I appreciate the input.
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