re: #202 dangerman

not necessary. the owner has total physical and legal control over whatever that gun does or is done with that gun. hold him accountable.

virtually every gun can be traced from its point of manufacture to some last owner. don’t want that to be you? lots of ways to prove you dont own it any more and took reasonable and prudent steps in your transfer to the next person

Nope. Can’t be traced. Can only be traced to the first buyer. Can disappear immediately and go through twenty hands legally before it ends up with a criminal.

Yup. Title. Automatically require transfer just as a house or car. If stolen, that would require a gun owner to report it stolen.

When I lived in Oklahoma, there was a case in my town of a person whose fingerprints were on the gun of a killer. The police questioned him, and then he said his guns were stolen, but he thought the government had no right to know if he owned guns.

Fortunately for the owner, they actually caught the guy who did it.

But if they had been reported stolen in the first place, perhaps more (or maybe not) could have been done.

Negligence, one of the things Jim Wright argues against. In this case, wilful negligence.