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Old 03-03-2013, 07:28 PM
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There is not in Minnesota where I live. Do you live in a city or state the has registration?
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If your city/county/state registers handguns you go to the agency where you registered it when it was purchased. This works no matter where you live.

If you didn't have to register the gun when purchased there is nowhere to go since there are no records.
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Wouldn't you remember if you had registered a gun?
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Well, I am thinking about the paperwork filed with ATF when the gun is bought.
Is that what you are looking for?
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the 4473 stays at the dealers place of business and does not go to the atf unless the dealer quits the business.
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Don't be too hard on the OP, a lot of LEO don't know the difference between registration and a 4473. A town near me had the reputation of requesting registration papers on firearms found during traffic stops, this in a state that does not have registration. People who did not know this surrendered their firearms.

About seven years ago I was stopped, asked for my registration and when I asked them "What registration?" they said "The form you fill out when you buy a firearm." They quickly got a lesson in what a 4473 was and when they asked me how I knew so much about it I told them I had been a firearms dealer for over 25 years. With that they apologized and hurried me on my way along with my pistol. I related this story to a lawyer friend later and he told me they sue that PD on a regular basis for these registration confiscations.
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This is foreign to me. I have no guns that are registered. Period. Most o fmy guns were purchased through an FFL and I had to fill out a 4473, but that's it. Never did consider that registration. I have to answer this question several times a month over the course of my practice. People are under the impression that they have to keep title of guns clear as they would an auto and I have to tell them( actually I have to CONVINCE them) that in Louisiana that just isn't the case.
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This is foreign to me. I have no guns that are registered. Period. Most o fmy guns were purchased through an FFL and I had to fill out a 4473, but that's it. Never did consider that registration. I have to answer this question several times a month over the course of my practice. People are under the impression that they have to keep title of guns clear as they would an auto and I have to tell them( actually I have to CONVINCE them) that in Louisiana that just isn't the case.
Same here in Virginia. I've had to almost browbeat my wife's chiropractor to convince him that you don't have to register guns in Virginia. Where'd he get the idea? Why from "NCIS" of course. Gunny is always pulling the most amazing information from the mythical "gun registration" records somewhere. (Same place they get those palm trees at Oceana NAS I suppose.)

Like the internet they can't put it on TV if it isn't true.
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No Registration requirements in Alabama. Why do you think you have guns registered in your name? You live somewhere that has that requirement in the current rules?
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Registration???

When did all of this come about???

Hell, I'm gonna have to pay closer attention arounds here!!!




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I've never gotten a copy of the 4473. There is only one that you fill out and the dealer keeps it. Nothing is registered and nothing goes to the BATF until that dealer goes out of business.
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I once held an FFL and kept the 4473s until I gave up the FFL and then mailed them to ATF. This was the required procedure outlined when I acquired the Lic..
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Where are your papers? We have ways to make you talk
(in an old German accent)

Depends on what State or Country you live in.
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Where are your papers? We have ways to make you talk
(in an old German accent)

Depends on what State or Country you live in.

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Wouldn't ya like to hear that in a heavy nu yawk german accent'






Where's The Startin Line????
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I once held an FFL and kept the 4473s until I gave up the FFL and then mailed them to ATF. This was the required procedure outlined when I acquired the Lic..
I asked a buddy of mine that is an ATF agent about records that are turned over and he said think of that last scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark, that is how they are stored.
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Sometimes I think these threads are started by folks on coffee break at the Minn Kota factory, just to make us think of them.
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If you live in Connecticut and have purchased a handgun since 1996, you are required to fill out a state form (DPS-3-C)and get a transaction number from DPS Special Licensing and Firearms Unit. This is required for private sales as well as at an FFL. The DPS-3-C is forwarded to the DPS at the Puzzle Palace in Middletown and to the police department in which the buyer resides. If you ask nicely the folks at SLFU or your local PD can tell you what you have purchased since the law was changed in 1996. But understand we have no registration in Connecticut.
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Rule,

Wouldn't ya like to hear that in a heavy nu yawk german accent'






Where's The Startin Line????

Bronx or Brooklyn?

Well where I live, this time of year lots of Nu Yawkers and Germans here. and Jersy, Ohio, Michigan, Canada etc. etc

I be from Long Island many many moons ago but did not acquire the heavy accent.
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I wouldn't answer this question. This is a new member to the forum, why is he asking for this kind of info?

NY state trooper once told me never volunteer information....
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Registered Constitutional Right, ... OK.... yeah.....
Registered fundamental human right,......alrighty, then.... yup....OK.....
Folks need to educate themselves. Or just don't go on a universal internet website to broadcast their complete ignorance of the law to the entire planet. Sheep. Lemmings.
Golly gee willikers, I think I'll go down to city hall and register my hammer (all of them)....check that, I meant 'register myself'. (just me)
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If they can make you register it, they can make you buy a license plate and inspection sticker for it. Think about THAT!
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If they can make you register it, they can make you buy a license plate and inspection sticker for it. Think about THAT!
What is this "think" of which you speak?

"We the people" are are led to conclusions, opinions, & beliefs by our news media. If any thinking is needed, they will do it for you, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

Now, go back & stick your head back in your hole. VHEEEEW! that's better, things look better from here.
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If they can make you register it, they can make you buy a license plate and inspection sticker for it. Think about THAT!
And have a yearly safety and smog inspection.

Geez I hate those but kinda, sorta, wish they would come back maybe for vehicle over a certain age. There are still some stinking, unsafe vehicles on the road. Lights? we don't need no lights, 5 miles to a qt of oil, who cares.
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I wouldn't answer this question. This is a new member to the forum, why is he asking for this kind of info?

NY state trooper once told me never volunteer information....
Because he doesn't know. That's how people learn. They ask questions. Where better to go ask the question?

I was a new member at one time. I'm pretty sure somebody thought my first question was pretty silly. Still they answered it.
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My point was that you can't trust what people are asking. Who the hell knows who this guy is. Could be some left wing gun grabber for all we know.
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I had a 19-3 registered in 1977 in NJ. Quadruplicate form "Permit to purchase pistol or revolver" IIRC. White to state police, yellow to seller, pink to purchaser, and a copy to local PD. When I moved to Florida I dutifully brought it to a LGS and asked to "register it." Old boy just about choked on his BeechNut juice laughing. Never asked again. Joe
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Registration is only required in one county in Nevada That is Clark county so any transfers or gun store purchases are registered but FTF sales you have 72 hours to get them registered. So some of mine are lets say not "illegal" just "undocumented"
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My point was that you can't trust what people are asking. Who the hell knows who this guy is. Could be some left wing gun grabber for all we know.
Well tell him to go down to the local PD and ask.

Who are you behind those jowls and dark glasses??
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