# 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, 10:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-check-if-a-gun-is-stolen-or-been-involved-in-crime/265671/5 "2012-12-05T10:45:48Z")

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> [@beard triming ....](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beard-triming/51183/15):
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> is this site reliable, ive seen sites like this before but cant imagine theyd have a record of every single stolen gun in the world.
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> would I be totally fucked if I bought a gun, was transporting it or w/e got pulled over and the cop ran the serial and saw it was stolen? Or would they just take it.

With a rifle or shotgun, it pretty much can not be proven if it was used in a crime unless it was stolen from evidence, or was reported stolen.

With pistols sold in NYS before 4/1/12, they’d have to have collected shell casings from the scene of a crime and connect the dots through CoBIS, which no longer exists and never solved a single crime in NYS.

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