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To: MarkL

I bought two 38 specials last week in one purchase. Two 380s in one purchase in March. Two 22 rifles and a shotgun in one purchase, back in August.
I'm in Texas, never heard of such a form or requirement here.


31 posted on 04/22/2006 11:09:40 AM PDT by lrb111 (Minutemen - Doing jobs the White House won't do.)
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To: lrb111
Multiple handgun sales are supposed to be recorded by the selling dealer and reported on a Form 3310.4 by the second day after the sale.

If your dealer failed to do that, well, he f'ed up.

33 posted on 04/22/2006 12:08:46 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass
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To: lrb111
RE: Multiple Handgun sales registration

I'm in Texas, never heard of such a form or requirement here.

Since it had been so long, I thought that maybe it was just a state requirement of MO, so I did some checking, and that's when I found this:

In the United States, the first regulations on multiple handgun purchases appeared after enactment of the Gun Control Act of 1968. Although the Act itself said nothing about multiple purchases, the new Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) created regulations for “Multiple Purchase Reporting Forms.”

Whenever a federally licensed firearms dealer sold more than one handgun to an individual in a 30-day period, the dealer had to send the Multiple Purchase Reporting form to BATF.

BATF did nothing with most of the forms that it received. Thus, when would-be assassin John Hinckley legally bought two handguns from a Texas firearms dealer one day in early 1980, the dealer sent a Multiple Purchase Form to BATF.

Neither a BATF investigation based on the Multiple Purchase Form, nor the future “Brady Act,” would have prevented Hinckley’s purchases. His only criminal conviction was for a misdemeanor; his mental health records were private; and although the address on his Texas driver’s license was no longer correct, he was a Texas resident, and legally allowed to buy guns anywhere in Texas.

The BATF regulation for the Multiple Purchase Form was codified in the Firearms Owners’ Protection Act of 1986. The 1994 Clinton crime bill later mandated that the Multiple Purchase Form also be sent to the local chief of police or sheriff.

(from: http://www.nrapublications.org/archives/fabric.asp)

Mark

42 posted on 04/22/2006 6:26:05 PM PDT by MarkL (When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
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