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Old 01-09-2017, 10:35 PM
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Originally Posted by spitdog View Post
I thought when you buy a pistol from a dealer the serial number is what identified who the owner was. Maybe I used the wrong word.
While a dealer running a regular gun business based on an FFL in any state will have a record to whom he sold a specific gun, no dealer in his right mind would make that information available to anyone but ATF or law enforcement, and likely not without a warrant, just for basic reasons of liability.

I've actually seen this question come up on gun forums in the past. People will letter a more modern gun, a Colt or S&W, and it will letter to some police equipment business, let's say Jovino in NY, known for selling to NYPD officers. So they'll call Jovino hoping to be told which hot-shot detective purchased their gun, and then complain on the forum when (inevitably) the dealer's response is some more or less polite version of "Hell no. What are you smoking?"
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