The Firing Line Forums - View Single Post - Is a gun actually in your name when purchased?

Skans · September 24, 2012, 04:04 PM

If you think that BATFE cannot track you down by the 4473, you're wrong....sort of. Here's the deal. This is how ATF found me! Some time around early '90's I received a notification saying I needed to register my USAS-12 because it had been reclassified as a Destructive Device. ATF can use the 4473's to contact (or have the dealer contact) purchasers. If the original owner no longer has the gun, they will just keep going down the line of purchasers. Now, if there was a private FTF sale, then the notification might stop at the last person to buy the gun from a dealer.

September 24, 2012, 04:04 PM	#7
Skans Senior Member Join Date: November 20, 2008 Posts: 11,132	If you think that BATFE cannot track you down by the 4473, you're wrong....sort of. Here's the deal. This is how ATF found me! Some time around early '90's I received a notification saying I needed to register my USAS-12 because it had been reclassified as a Destructive Device. ATF can use the 4473's to contact (or have the dealer contact) purchasers. If the original owner no longer has the gun, they will just keep going down the line of purchasers. Now, if there was a private FTF sale, then the notification might stop at the last person to buy the gun from a dealer.