Hi, all. I just recently bought a shotgun from Dicks Sporting Goods in Fairfax, Virginia. This is the first time I ever bought a gun. I know in Virginia that guns don't have to be registered, but they need to do a background check on you first. When I think of not having to be registered I think that all that's required for the store to do is do a background check and then sell me the gun as if I was buying any other item. But they had all these forms and it took 2 people to do the whole sale. And they took down all kinds of numbers from the gun and put it on all these forms and stuff. And all this stuff was stored in a manilla folder indicating it was going to be filed away somewhere. Isn't this some form of registration? I've been trying to find information on what exactly a store has to do to sell a gun but haven't found anything that describes exactly that. Can anyone here shed some light on it please?