# how to check if a gun is stolen or been involved in crime?

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**Created:** [December 5, 2012, 10:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-check-if-a-gun-is-stolen-or-been-involved-in-crime/265671 "2012-12-05T10:06:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cossey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Cossey](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Cossey)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 3:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-check-if-a-gun-is-stolen-or-been-involved-in-crime/265671/11 "2012-12-05T15:43:00Z")

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> [@no casino for Buffalo.....](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/no-casino-for-buffalo/51202/3):
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> im allowed to sell guns that ive bought, used for a while and then sold?
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> and idk damirs friend is a peace keeper or some shit and he said something wasnt right with it, idk exactly what the issue was but I just returned his money and that was that.
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> not gonna go through all the trouble to call the ATF lol, I just wanna know how most people say on wantad buy guns or if they just take the sellers word for it not being hot.

As long as you bought the firearm in your name, and didn’t use anything in the business to buy it, you should be fine. Typically, buying and immediately selling can get you looked at by the ATF if you do it frequently and someone fucks up with that gun when asked where the got it from. If they say they got it from some cash4gold place, then you’ll be fucked. If they say they bought it from love4boost, you should be fine.

As I said, there’s no REAL way to find out if a rifle/shotgun was used in a crime unless they have the firearm in their possession, as well as shell casings from the scene of the crime. It’s not like a pistol where that data was all on file, so if they find shell casings at a scene, they simple go through the CoBIS database and see it belongs to this serial number, then they go after the person whose permit that pistol is listed under.

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