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Thanks guys!

Oldgringo wrote:

ClarkLZeuss wrote:

Oldgringo wrote:Wouldn't you already have the gun home by the time you looked up the serial number?

Not if there was like an FBI number or something you could call from the gun show.

In other words, you want to know if the gun was somehow registered?

No, not exactly. Just whether or not it has been connected to a crime. I don't even want to know the extent of the crime, just a true/false answer. I don't think guns have to be registered in the first place to make this possible, right? Or maybe I'm wrong...would the police be able to tell you a serial number was not "clean" even if they hadn't at some point confiscated it? (Cause obviously, you're not going to be able to buy a gun that was once in the hands of police). Hmmm, maybe this whole idea wouldn't work. Dang.

So let me play devil's advocate. Let's say you buy a gun, which was used in a crime, and at some point you use it in self-defense. The police take ballistics, and bada-bing! they have a match to the previous crime. How are you going to convince them that 1) it wasn't you, and 2) you didn't know?

Oldgringo wrote:Wouldn't you already have the gun home by the time you looked up the serial number?

Not if there was like an FBI number or something you could call from the gun show.

mclovin wrote:I was wondering if there was a way to look up a serial# on a weapon to make sure it wasn't used in a crime?

This is exactly what I've been wondering, especially with the prospect of buying something at gun shows. Normally, I prefer to buy new things, but something like a Glock I don't mind buying used, because they seem to have such a great track record, and it would be much less expensive that way. It would be great to somehow find out, at the gun show, whether the gun had a clean record...sort of like how we use CarFax for used autos.