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How easy is it to transfer a gun you bought from someone into your name. Gun was bought years ago and I don't have any of there information.

Why would you want it in your name? You dont have to register your gun and with the way things are going I would rather them NOT know what I had at home...

RiverDuck wrote:Why would you want it in your name? You dont have to register your gun and with the way things are going I would rather them NOT know what I had at home...

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Why do you want to register it?

RiverDuck wrote:Why would you want it in your name? You dont have to register your gun and with the way things are going I would rather them NOT know what I had at home...

^^^^^What he said.^^^^^

Heck, I'm even glad to find out that the guy I bought some of my guns from years ago has sold his business and retired.

Bc when I shoot one of these thugs for stealing stuff from cars I wanna make sure I gonna be good. I don't wanna have to shoot someone and the gun be in someone else's name.

turkeyman wrote:Bc when I shoot one of these thugs for stealing stuff from cars I wanna make sure I gonna be good. I don't wanna have to shoot someone and the gun be in someone else's name.

More than likely its not in their name either. There is now way I would register a gun.

How would you actually go about this? Ask someone with FFL to run check on you? Go to your local sheriff dept and tell them the story?

Listen to everyone the gun doesn't have to be in your name. If you shoot somebody and the gun isn't hot then your fine.

Just get a cop buddy to run the serials. If it comes back "with history", then you may have issues. Otherwise, let sleeping dogs lay.

As far as I know the only guns that have to be registered, or can be for that matter, are full auto, short barreled rifles or shotguns, and/or suppressors.

Like Joel said, get a LEO friend to run the number on it so you can be sure it wasn't reported stolen or known to be used in a crime at some point etc. Other than that you sold it years ago...

Heck i'd pay as much as $50 extra for a gun that wasn't registered. Don't go ruining that guns value

You can go to a U. S. Customs office and have it "registered" in your name. They will identify the gun and the serial number and give you a form. Like the others said....I don't think it is necessary.

iron grip wrote:As far as I know the only guns that have to be registered, or can be for that matter, are full auto, short barreled rifles or shotguns, and/or suppressors.

Like Joel said, get a LEO friend to run the number on it so you can be sure it wasn't reported stolen or known to be used in a crime at some point etc. Other than that you sold it years ago...

+1 There is no registry of guns unless they are restricted such as the ones listed above. This is what the NRA is fighting against right now. If its a new gun you might could update the registration with the manufacturer for warranty purposes, but its probably no necessary.