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[MosinVirus]

Is the buyer originally from CA?

[alfred1222]

Buyer was born in CA, however, moved and lives in NV for over 30 years now.

[njineermike]

This.

[Epaphroditus]

Either way guns in better hands after purchase, right?

[Guns and guitars]

When purchasing tell him to take a bill of sale and have the seller sign it and take a picture of each others license.
That way he can print it out, keep it with the BOS in the safe.
Ive had to do this multiple times in Az.

It clears you of wrongdoing but if the odd chance the weapon is stolen, they confiscate it unless its been a long period of time.

[wayoutwest]

We are now required/supposed to do backgrounds here.

I used to run courtesy stolen checks on private sale guns all the time (LEDS/NCIC), also for bikes, trailers, small campers, phones, you name it.

Have your friend call around, the gun will show stolen nationwide, shouldn't matter who he calls.

[dwalker]

A BGC will not tell if a gun is stolen. You can have the local PD run the serial number to see if the gun comes back as stolen.

Once upon a time I bought a Ruger Mk2 pistol. From a Nashville Metro cop, through an evidence technician. About a year later I got pulled over in Reno and the cop ran the serial number on the gun. Turns out it was stolen. I was in jail for about 5 hours until I could bond out. The DA dropped the charges against me because the gun had disappeared from the Police evidence lockup at the Nashville airport (pre TSA), and since I had no access to that facility and had no reason to believe I was buying a stolen item, I was GTG. Also since I provided the name of the evidence tech and a list of the other items the cop had for sale, Nashville PD had been led to making some other interesting discoveries.

[-hanko]

^This. Don't over think a simple gun purchase. I do not record DL info unless the weapon is C&R and then I'm required to get basic info from the seller or buyer.

[Dan_Eastvale]

I'd say if he's worried then don't buy ppt.

PPT where I live is simple.. Meet someone, checkout the gun, maybe chat with the seller abit... Can do a bill of sale... Don't have to. Buy it..drive away..
No registration.. Simple

The California mindset makes people worry too much.

[Scratch705]

i can understand OP friend's fear.

i mean i wouldn't want to be out $900 on the chance that the gun is stolen, nor deal with the police concerning a stolen firearm.

i'm surprised the local PD won't run a serial# check of the pistol. that should be something the police should be happy to do in order to help prevent & recover stolen firearms.

[2shotjoe]

Nv is no longer a free state.

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[dwalker]

i can understand OP friend's fear.

i mean i wouldn't want to be out $900 on the chance that the gun is stolen, nor deal with the police concerning a stolen firearm.

i'm surprised the local PD won't run a serial# check of the pistol. that should be something the police should be happy to do in order to help prevent & recover stolen firearms.

It sounds like he asked them to do a NICS check on a PPT, which they wont do, and would not matter anyway since they would not run the serial number on a NICS check.

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[dwalker]

Yeah he just doesn't want any issues down the road if that 1% turns out to be true. Its understandable we all try to mitigate risk but in this case, if NCIC is not available to him, its pretty much luck of the draw then. Thanks all.

The police will happily run a serial number check to see if it comes back as stolen.