![]() |
|
Forum Rules | Firearms Safety | Firearms Photos | Links | Library | Lost Password | Email Changes |
Register | FAQ | Calendar | Today's Posts | Search |
![]() |
|
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
![]() |
#26 |
Senior Member
Join Date: March 15, 2010
Posts: 8,387
|
The serial number thing seems pointless on an AR, because you can buy every individual part except one as long as you have the money. You can then turn around and slap all those parts on to a board and make it fire.
You could also make a stolen rifle’s receiver look like an 80% job. |
![]() |
![]() |
#27 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: December 13, 2005
Posts: 4,578
|
Quote:
If I make an 80% lower engrave a number into it, someone steals it and is later found to possess it, how would police know it was ever mine? ATF do not take stolen arms reports from non-licensees. A lot of localities don't maintain a registry of stolen firearms. A manufacturers serial number makes some sense for an item first sold exclusively through federal licensees who are obligated to keep individual transaction records. If the first contact a PD has with your homemade lower is recording its possession by someone held for a crime, they are not aware of any link to you unless there is a way to create that link for the PD first.
__________________
http://www.npboards.com/index.php |
|
![]() |
![]() |
#28 | |
Staff
Join Date: September 25, 2008
Location: CONUS
Posts: 19,050
|
Quote:
__________________
NRA Life Member / Certified Instructor NRA Chief RSO / CMP RSO 1911 Certified Armorer Jeepaholic |
|
![]() |
![]() |
#29 |
Senior Member
Join Date: February 13, 2009
Location: NJ
Posts: 1,260
|
If you ever decide to sell it down the road a serial number would probably make that easier to. None of the dealers around here will take a gun for consignment without a serial #. Don't know many people who'd buy one without it either... at least not if they are on the up and up.
|
![]() |
![]() |
#30 |
Senior Member
Join Date: August 19, 2007
Location: Montmorency Co, MI
Posts: 1,551
|
If I really wanted a long gun and had money or drugs I guess I could buy one in private party sale off of an internet gun trader but it would be a lot cheaper to rob them if I can get them to meet me in a good location, maybe late in the evening and I bring some friends. I might trade drugs with someone I knew to be a criminal who had already burgled them.
Copied from somewhere above-------------- Maybe one of those children would do this.. They (23 yo) and driving a BMW w/ a wad of 100s in the trunk along w/ several guns and a supply of several drugs-all imported and being sold to US citizens. Several of said citizens would overdose on the imported drugs and now we have an "opioid epidemic" on our hands. Arthritic and patients awaiting joint implants will have a hexx of a time trying to control their pain. |
![]() |
![]() |
#31 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: January 10, 2012
Posts: 3,881
|
Quote:
|
|
![]() |
![]() |
#32 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: March 20, 2011
Location: Willamina, OR
Posts: 1,909
|
Quote:
Tony |
|
![]() |
![]() |
#33 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: February 13, 2009
Location: NJ
Posts: 1,260
|
Quote:
Last edited by NJgunowner; November 4, 2019 at 12:40 PM. |
|
![]() |
![]() |
#34 |
Senior Member
Join Date: January 15, 2013
Location: South Jersey
Posts: 1,416
|
^^^
NJG, Are your cousins nj residents? I'm surprised that the polizei returned them. |
![]() |
![]() |
#35 |
Senior Member
Join Date: February 13, 2009
Location: NJ
Posts: 1,260
|
Na, he's in Missouri. Said the local PD were really good about getting his property back to him. In NJ it would have ended up being melted into paper weights or ended up going missing from the evidence lock up
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#36 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: October 21, 2009
Location: Quadling Country
Posts: 2,779
|
Quote:
The big problem is that people leave their guns in unlocked cars and kids just come by and take them. The same person that is that lazy and irresponsible of a gun owner is also the same guy who has no idea what the serial number is. So when his gun is stolen the odds of getting it back are virtually zero. I had a friend who had a burglary seven years ago and his rifle turned up in a drug dealer's stash two states away. He got the gun back.
__________________
Thus a man should endeavor to reach this high place of courage with all his heart, and, so trying, never be backward in war. |
|
![]() |
![]() |
#37 |
Senior Member
Join Date: November 20, 2007
Location: South Western OK
Posts: 3,122
|
Tom King is not the first NRA board member to shill for gun control.
Anyone remember when NRA board member and Texas Ranger Joaquin Jackson jumped before the bright lights and shilled for an "assault weapons ban? Yep, NRA members made excuses for Jackson's gaffe and re-elected him to the NRA board. |
![]() |
![]() |
|
|