"Registered" firearms.

Some of it is clear as mud to a blind man on a foggy day.:o
MD for example.

Fingerprinted, ID'd, gun's serial #, make, model & caliber documented & a fired case submitted for ballistic fingerprinting. Is that "registered"?

OK now they never have ever opened a single packet containing the fired case! Every barracks has 55 gal drums filled with the sealed envelopes.

Are they registered?

Until recently registration was voluntary. Now it isn't.

Are they registered?
I doubt anyone really knows, but there is a huge amount of paper & digital filing on them.
 
What I meant about a "true" registry is like NY has, where the particular firearm serial number, owner, and address are listed, and to what degree that info is available to the general public. More interested in how particular firearms are tracked, and who has access to that system.
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Since you have posted on a public forum dealing with guns, anyone can do some investigation to find out everything about you. I'd be more worried about everywhere you use a debit or credit card...........;)
 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but any firearm I've bought since a call to the BATF was required here in Missouri, they know about right down to my address and the serial number of the firearm.
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The NICS check doesn't require any serial numbers
They only know if it's a "long gun or hand gun"
 
DC maintains full personal data, with photo and fingerprint and all firearms (handgun and long) by make, model and serial number.

Last year, during a routine traffic stop in DC, by uniformed FBI, which are federal but can act as local law enforcement in DC (along with several other agencies such as FPS) and have vehicle access to MPD computers, I was asked if I had firearms in the vehicle. Given there are under 4,000 gun owners in DC, that was a very unusual question and leads me to believe they have tied them to name and drivers license and any DC ownership will come up when they run the plate or DL for W/W though MPD.

Nota Bene: No, I have no "got sig?" "nra" or anything else on or in the car.
 
The NICS check doesn't require any serial numbers
They only know if it's a "long gun or hand gun"
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Yes & no.

If you do NICS in MD the only contact agency is MSPD. They require way more than NICS does to process the query, including:
make & model (to "check against the banned by name" & copy list),
caliber (to verify the ballistic fingerprint case is the right caliber) &
electronic fingerprint (to verify you aren't a prohibited person) &
serial number (to check it isn't stolen).

NICS doesn't directly gather the info, but if you don't "voluntarily submit" it the check can't be performed.

Again, is it registered?:o
 
I was asked if I had firearms in the vehicle. Given there are under 4,000 gun owners in DC, that was a very unusual question
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Maybe, but maybe not. It's just your opinion that it is an unusual question. And, you might be right, but..

IT is routine for police to ask this nowdays. You can see it all the time on TV, on the "cops" shows (not the fiction ones, the ones with real cops making stops, etc.) They almost ALWAYS ask, "Do you have any guns, knives, dangerous weapons, drugs, (or) anything I should know about in the car, sir?"

Or something like that. SO, maybe what you felt was an unusual question was simply an unexpected use of their current SOP?
 
If you do NICS in MD the only contact agency is MSPD. They require way more than NICS does to process the query, including:
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Then technically that's not "NICS", which is "National Instant Check System"

NICS doesn't directly gather the info, but if you don't "voluntarily submit" it the check can't be performed.
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Those MD's state regulations and requirments
 
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I was asked if I had firearms in the vehicle. Given there are under 4,000 gun owners in DC, that was a very unusual question
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That's a common question during traffic stops, no matter where you are
 
Actually it is. MD law has only one provider for NICS checks & its the MSP. ALL NICS checks are performed by them.

Which is why I say is it registration? so much.
 
Actually it is. MD law has only one provider for NICS checks & its the MSP.
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Exactly
It's MD law that requires the serial number, not NICS.
That requirement is in addition to the NICS requirements, which are Federal only.

NICS will let states substitute their own background check systems
 
Still 100% missing the point.
MD has MSP as the sole contact portal for NICS.
Its still NICS, not a state check, its just routed through the MSP.
Yes the state requires more info than NICS does but the question: "is it registered" is just as valid.
 
Still 100% missing the point.
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Its still NICS, not a state check
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Nope
You're missing the point that I never said anything about state laws

My point is NICS doesn't require serial numbers

Your point is about MD law, and the fact they might also use the NICS data base is not relevent to what I stated, because MD doesn't have to give NICS the numbers either

Your guns are not "registered" with the Federal Govt through NICS

It's done on the state level, through their own draconian rules, and doesn't apply to other states nor the Federal Govt

If it was "still NICS, not at state check", I highly doubt they'd have a web page stating otherwise:

The FBI says MD performs their own checks, and maintains their own "registration" database

http://fbinicsystem.com/us-gun-laws-by-state/maryland-background-check-and-gun-laws.html
 
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