“Form 4473”
My Dad once observed, “In order for there to be a registration law, there must also be a deregistration law.”
But there’s no federal law requiring citizens to report private gun sales. Or for private buyers to register their purchases.
So.... ATFE agents appear at your front door and say that this stack of 4473’s says you own these guns and where are they, please? Answer, “I sold them all.”
(Yes, a new draconian `law’ could decree otherwise.)
Thoughts, anyone?
Beat ya to it. Already sold all mine. Country leaders said that commoners don’t need them except for hunting, and I don’t hunt, so I sold them already.
Molon Labe
Thats why some of us have made off the record exchanges...
There has never been anything illegal about that, if the persons doing the business are legal to own and possess firearms in the first place...
Which is a pretty good precentage, if not all of us here...
Consider this for something to ponder...
“IF” it ever came to the point where the government made it known that it would gather up all the 4473’s it could to facilitate a registration, or information gathering effort, to an eventual “confiscation” of “illegal” weaponry???
I would say it “might” be safe to say that that information might not be available to them because of a series of unfortunate events that would make that information irrecoverable, unavailable, etc etc...
If I were an FFL, I could safely say that I might be clever enough to....”Awwwwww, man! They stole everything except this firearm thats not on your ban or confiscation list!” Darn the luck...
I can also immagine the threats that could be imposed to FFL’s and possible incarceration because of this...But maybe thats the least of what will be lost individually “if” it ever comes to this...
Maybe I should just hush up about all of this, but you asks for thoughts/opinions...
hehehe, I know, I give headaches out in droves...
But I am only speculating...
You think if it comes to confiscation of firearms "registered" on 4473s, they are going to *believe* that you sold them all?
Heck if nothing else they'll sick the IRS on you for "unreported income", that being the way their forefathers, the "Untouchables" (direct ancestors of todays BATFE, they had to have something to do after prohibition was repealed), got Alphonse Capone.