Thread: Useing the firearms register

Originally Posted by Maxx

If you plan to sell any firearms I suggest its useful to validate your account to monitor what the Register thinks you have.

I registered recently so that I could sell a rifle. Did the rego and validation so I could see them all there. Gave one rifle to a shop to sell on behalf, and was told they would 'pull it over' from my account to theirs. Rifle sold, I got paid and I went and had another look at the register and saw it was still registered to me.... this about 3 weeks after sale. Had a closer look at the register and couldn't find any function that allowed me to advise of the sale. Gave them a call and was told that if a disposal is via a registered dealer then the seller didn't have to do anything 'cos the dealer was supposed to do it all. If disposal was 'peer to peer' then that has to be notified by phone call.... no functionality on the website to do that . WTF??

Polite lady at the Register said they would follow up with dealer, and seemed perturbed that sale was ~ 3 weeks ago, rather than a couple of days. I expect the dealer got a call. I'd have thought the new owner would have registered it by now (even if the dealer hadn't run it through his account) , and if the Register works an alert would have been thrown up about 2 of us having that rifle in our possession?

So nothing to be encouraged about at all, imo.

I was told it doesn't come off your list until the dealer on sells it? Doesn't make any sence but that's what Gun City told me when I traded a rifle, and so did the person at the register.

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