AmesJainchill
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I run a GURPS Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game.
That is, a made-up, not-real, totally fictional game with no basis in reality.
Everyone got that?
The game is set in the United States, in the current day. We use real world prices for ammo and weapons.
In this game, one of the characters is somewhat well-off and posesses, legally under the NFA, a Micro-Uzi machinegun and an M-79 grenade launcher. The player has refrained from purchasing HE rounds, preferring to purchase tear gas, to give a more favorable impression in the hypothetical scenario that the character is confronted by the police--a group of dispersed thugs is a lot better than a pile of gore.
Now, I have stressed that if the character is caught by the police using these weapons, even legally, he'll be crucified in court ( I read here about the case of the H&K sales rep shooting the biker with a machine gun, long legal battle, loses his job, etc.).
Now, there's only a few ways for the police to track down whether his specific weapons are used in the crimes:
-Ballistic fingerprinting (easy enough to circumvent)
-Checking where the NFA items are when the character leaves the state. Asking to see them when he's out of state probably present legal problems for the ATF (the character does have a wife and children).
This would take a lot of suspicion placed on the character and would be in a scenario that would more likely result in him being arrested anyway because of other evidence. But the smallest things can make a difference.
I also know that you are supposed to tell the ATF if you move an NFA item across state lines. What kind of process is this?
That is, a made-up, not-real, totally fictional game with no basis in reality.
Everyone got that?
The game is set in the United States, in the current day. We use real world prices for ammo and weapons.
In this game, one of the characters is somewhat well-off and posesses, legally under the NFA, a Micro-Uzi machinegun and an M-79 grenade launcher. The player has refrained from purchasing HE rounds, preferring to purchase tear gas, to give a more favorable impression in the hypothetical scenario that the character is confronted by the police--a group of dispersed thugs is a lot better than a pile of gore.
Now, I have stressed that if the character is caught by the police using these weapons, even legally, he'll be crucified in court ( I read here about the case of the H&K sales rep shooting the biker with a machine gun, long legal battle, loses his job, etc.).
Now, there's only a few ways for the police to track down whether his specific weapons are used in the crimes:
-Ballistic fingerprinting (easy enough to circumvent)
-Checking where the NFA items are when the character leaves the state. Asking to see them when he's out of state probably present legal problems for the ATF (the character does have a wife and children).
This would take a lot of suspicion placed on the character and would be in a scenario that would more likely result in him being arrested anyway because of other evidence. But the smallest things can make a difference.
I also know that you are supposed to tell the ATF if you move an NFA item across state lines. What kind of process is this?