Need some advice about CCW please!

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renegadecreation

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I bought a G26 recently FTF in WV. I am going to carry it concealed...do I need to have it registered in my name before carrying it? Will this cause me problems with LEOs if stopped and they run the serial # and it isn’t in my name? Im not sure on the legal aspects of this! Im new to CCW

Thanks for the help!
 
renegadecreation said:
Do I need to have it registered in my name before carrying it?
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As far as I know, West Virginia has no handgun registration system, so there's no way to "register" it even if you wanted to. (Why would you?) For this reason, the police can't "run the number" like they do on automobile license plates and have it bring back your name. They could run the serial number against a list of guns reported to have been stolen, as Renfield said, but that isn't likely, IMO.

-Dave
 
I'm presuming it's registered to someone else -- a spouse, family member or a good friend.

If you are involved in a fatal shooting, the cops will run the serial number to verify it isn't a stolen gun. As part of the investigation, depending on the circumstances, they may attempt to establish when you acquired the firearm and by what means. Not being able to connect you with the last known dealer may raise some questions which your lawyer should handle adroitly.

If you acquired the gun in a private-party sale or trade, keep any information you have on the seller you purchased it from. This could prevent you from being placed in custody if some dyslexic clerk entered the wrong s/n into NCIC and shows your gun as stolen.
 
Where do you find this out? Is there a list of where there is or isn't a registry? As I understand, we all have to fill out the same form when buying a gun, which has both the serial number of the gun and your personal info. None of this is kept and recorded? I live in WA, and have had some people tell me that there is a handgun registry, and others say there isn't.
 
Those Federal forms supposedly are not retained by the government, though the gun store keeps their copy forever.
You can check out that link in my previous post or Handgun Law for more information. However, I have found that a lot of non-gun owners believe there is registration when in fact there is not. Something else we 'know' from television shows.
 
Those Federal forms supposedly are not retained by the government, though the gun store keeps their copy forever.
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The government doesn't officially announce that they keep FFLs' firearms transfer forms. However...

The BATFE can stop in at an FFL's place of business and "inspect" forms, which includes copying them or even taking them permanently. AFAIK there are no grounds to refuse a request by the BATFE to take a bunch of form 4473s.

The BATFE gets all forms still in the possession of an FFL when the FFL goes out of business. An FFL can only get rid of a 4473 after 20 years, and only if the BATFE hasn't taken (confiscated) the 4473s during that time.

There's no legal requirement for the BATFE not to keep the forms they collect. Even if there were, they'd probably keep them anyway, like the government illegally keeps NICS check data.

FFLs please chime in if I got something wrong.
 
tyme said:
...they'd probably keep them anyway, like the government illegally keeps NICS check data.
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But... But... They passed a law requiring the government to destroy the records. They wouldn't break their own law, would they?;) :barf:

If you've read Andrew Napolitano's book Constitutional Chaos, you'll know the answer to that facetious question.
 
he government doesn't officially announce that they keep FFLs' firearms transfer forms. However...
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I did say "supposedly" for a reason. Registratrion implies something offical. Of course if the gun store has records they can be inspected, perhaps without a warrent. Part of my reasoning to not have Google index my hard drive too. I have nothing illegal, but the government doesn't need to know in a sweeping inspection either.
This registry doesn't officially exists, but unlike Area 51 and Men in Black it probably does.
Now if you will all look this way . . .
 
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