Police Department Asking Residents to Provide Firearm Serial Numbers
A Georgia Police Department is asking residents to provide serial numbers to all firearms to help police find them if they are stolen.
The Chatham County Police Department is asking residents to provide the serial numbers to firearms in order to help police find them if they are stolen.
WTGS reports that numerous guns are stolen in the county, 90 have been stolen since February 2018 alone.
CCPD Capt. Daniel Flood said, “Unfortunately, we’ve seen a big increase in the number of guns that have been stolen from unlocked cars. From burglaries and that type of thing.” He added, “About a third of them don’t have serial numbers. [The gun owners] don’t record the serial numbers.”
Flood is asking county residents to provide their serial numbers via a database so that if their guns are stolen police will have the information. He says that will enable police to find the gun if it is taken to a pawn shop in another county or state too.The serial number website is called ReportIt and Flood says if your gun is stolen you can tell police, “Hey my gun is logged into ReportIt with Leads Online.”
What a great idea, you people should scurry over to ReportIt and enter the serial numbers to all of your weapons. When you get done with that drop off a DNA and urine sample at your local crime lab so they can confirm you have nothing to do with any crime.
I would join you in this fine effort but if I had ever owned a gun of any kind I am sure it was lost during a recent boating accident along with what little responsibly purchased ammo I might have had. Gosh, I sure wish I had entered all that data into this database of theirs. Citizen, support your local government.
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t that serial # appear on the permit to purchase? And do the initials GFY seem familiar to that PD?(and I spent 29yrs in the bag)
I dont know about other states, but if you have a permit to carry in Minnesota, you do not require a permit to purchase.
Yes, but as in any firearm purchase, a Federal Form 4473 must be completed.
What is this “permit to purchase” you speak of? Here in Arkansas, it’s a simple matter of walking into a gun store, picking out what you want, filling out a 4473, and either waiting for the store to call in your background check and then paying for your gun and taking it home or, if you have a CHCL, just paying for your gun and taking it home.
It’s going to be interesting to see how this purchasing process is affected by the October 18, 2018 ruling by the Arkansas Court of Appeals in Taff v State of Arkansas that has essentially made Arkansas a Constitutional Carry state, negating the requirement for a permit for open or concealed carry.
As always, gun laws in Arkansas remain contradictory and confusing but as it stands at the moment, this ruling appears to be controlling law according to multiple legal sources.
I’m still keeping my CHCL valid until such time as I move out of the state. I like not having to wait for them to call the 4473 in
It is my understanding that several “constitutional carry” states maintain their old permit system so folks can take advantage of reciprocity elsewhere.
Waiting for a state to pass a law that says a driver’s license is marked “permit for open/concealed carry of weapons” unless the holder requests it be marked “not for carry of weapons, or is intelligible (felon, DD, etc).
I’d rather not have that endorsement on my DL. The whole idea of concealed carry is secrecy/discretion. I don’t want to advertise such a qualification every time I have to show ID.
Bingo.
The only “permit to purchase” I need is from the spousal unit. I sometimes get it after I act like a two year old, pouting and throwing a tantrum about the new toy I want that’s currently on sale (or not). It works some of the time. At other times the “permit” is pulled and I’m left looking like the immature idiot I can sometimes be.
Golly, it’s almost exactly like firearms registration. Whatever could go wrong with that?
/sarc
No worries bro, I already entered a bunch of serial numbers using your name and address.
Glad I could help.
I care what a sheriff in Passl’o’toads, Georgia has?
But thanks for playing.
*grin*
Thank You so much, save me time generating a bunch of non-matching numbers.
I could really confuse them down there in Georgia by providing the manufacturers’ numbers on my brassieres.
Well, those are holsters for deadly weapons! (ducks a thrown skillet, dodges an attacking Miss Punkin Squawky pants, runs off with the beans/sausage and cornbread)
Damn 5th, you beat me with the exact reply I was gonna give…
Ah, the old Ellie Mae Clampett “double barrel slingshot”.
You lost your guns & ammo in a boating accident also? What a strange coincidence. What I was doing on the lake with that many guns and ammo is my business.
Youse guys need to stop using boats with big holes in them.
Big hole in boat, yep was duck hunting when shotgun in front of boat went off by itself and then fell through the hole and took the others with it.
It’s a wonder the lakes and rivers are still navigable, what with all those lost-overboard guns.
Yep, it’s not global warning that is raising the water level, its all those lost guns and ammo in the bottom of the lakes and rivers.
Gotta protect against those vicious catfish. They’re all teeth and fins, attacking out of nowhere.
“They’re coming right for us!”
Brilliant. How’s about this instead. THE PD lists the make, model and serial number of each recovered gun and, if a resident had one stole, he looks to see if his is listed on the PD website page.
That would work nicely and makes more sense. Therefore it will never see the light of day.
How bout I write a script that registers every firearm serial number from zero to (infinity(minus one)) to GDContractor? All your unclaimed found guns are belong to us!
Sure Officer Friendly, anything to help. What could go wrong? FFS
My local FFL dealer does not record serial numbers. Thats between you and the factory and nobody else.
I thought it was required on the form?
I have lists of my weaponry, and their serial numbers, and keep them in separate locations, none of which is in my actual abode. Screw em.
Now that makes much more sense. If a gun gets stolen, THEN you can give the police the serial number so you can possibly get it back if the police find it.
The bill of sale has the serial #’S written on it. I have a record book and bill of sales for all my fire arms.
This! I keep the bill of sale and a record book in my safe. I have a separate record book in a second location. Both record books have serial numbers, complete descriptions of each gun, and pictures of the guns.
Same here, Frankie. And, photos of all of them, too.
Some of my former (before the boat accident) guns were old enough to not need numbers. All the rest had serial numbers…and if stolen I could provide numbers. Numbers in advance? Uh, no.
So, my question is, how would that work with, let’s say, a home built AR-15 that started out life as a stripped lower? Or even better, one that started as an 80% lower- you know, one that can be shipped straight to your house?
it is not designed to work or provide any type of value in the society.
It is a form of virtue signalling…
I etch my own identifying numbers on my 80% guns. It’s known only to me and would serve to identify the rifles should they be stolen.
“Ghost guns” could have imaginary numbers.
Square root of negative one
Square root of negative two…
Chatham County? Oh, you mean Savannah and its suburbs.
Why am I not surprised?
Or Fulton County.
Seriously, read this story and remove any mention of Georgia, you’d think this story was set in NY, NJ, MD, CT, or CA.
Nope. Just another sheriff that should be polishing up his resume next election and looking for a job that involves paper hats.
Sheriff Tim, our local LEO chief here in the southern part of the PDRofMD, has flat said he’ll not enforce any laws passed in Annapolis that infringes on Constitutional rights.
He was recently reelected in a landslide vote.
You guys are so jaded and cynical. It’s the government. They only want to help you.
I do just fine without their “help”, thanks. Maybe it’s all that “help” we got while in service to Unca Shuga that makes us the cynical bastards we are.
Nah, can’t be that, could it?
I shoulda used the sarcasm font…
“Here is Captain Sandy with the weather he has found for Savannah and for Chatham and the counties all around”
How about this I write down the serial numbers of all my firearms and put them in a safe place and should one be stolen I provide that to the police department when I file the report of theft.
EPIC FAIL!!
“4” ……..That’s one of the serial numbers on one of my guns. I know I saw it on there somewhere. Maybe that was a caliber number.
I need to go and look again to verify…….sometime…….eventua lly……
Aww gee whiz, the Government wants that info only wanting to help, what ELSE would they do with it? Pity my guns disappeared when I fell into some quicksand!
Now that’s a new one on me. I have heard the boating accident one many times but that’s the first time I have heard about someone losing their guns in quicksand. How did you manage to do that?
I *uuhhhhm* yeah, was walking in the swampy area to go shoot and uuhhmyeah, the wagon and I suddenly started sinking into the quicksand and I grabbed a vine JUST in time to pull myself to safety and the quicksand claimed my guns and the wagon I was carrying them in…
I lost mine in a freak quantum physics experiment when I accidentally opened a miniature black hole while trying to supercharge my lathe. Thankfully, that’s all that was lost…except for the neighbors annoying cat.
I lost all mine when I was inducted into Black Ops, straight out of basic. But I can’t talk about it.
Can Hack Stone enter the serial number of the M-16A1 that he had in boot camp? Easiest serial number to remember in the world, 777377. Three 7’s, a 3, and two more 7’s.
I forgot the white stencilled number on the wood stock of the Enfield rifle that was issued to me while in boot camp up at the Great Lakes back in 1963.
Still remember the serial number of my Security Forces badge. Been out over 17yrs now, and can still rattle off 029757
I still remember my first social security number. I kid you not.
Had a carry permit early seventies required make model and s/n. Chief of police issued.
Good only for the one weapon. Strange. Have not seen that requirement since.
It was for a Super Blackhawk in .44mag tee hee.
Savannah, the former Garden City (not to be confused with Garden City right up the river), going/gone to hell in a hand basket like every other metro area in Georgia. Between the liberals, SJW, dindus, gang bangers, and demon crats I don’t know if we need a good air strike or a sustained T.O.T. High income taxes precluded me from owning a boat; thought my guns were safe. The tornado spawned from the hurricanes took ’em out along with all of the cartridges.
You think I would get in trouble if I submitted a dick pic instead?
Probably. But I say go for it and have some fun with them. Send the clowns a “Come and Take It” sign as well. That will truly make their heads spin.
Maybe a bare ass pic, then.
Or, concerning the rifle/gun distinction, send the dick pic with “Sorry, my gun has no serial number. But here’s an identifying photo!”
Thass fukking brilliant!
Even better.
I can hear the comments now, “He has a tiny gun with a short trigger.”
Uuuh, no, but thanks for playing. Incremental steps to complete confiscation, which is the ultimate goal.
Kind of reminds me of the period in recent history when pediatricians were encourage to ask their young patients (without parents present of course) “does daddy have any guns in the house”. My kids were instructed to say “no”. Of course when my kids were that young they were never left alone with anyone, not even a do-gooder quack.
With some of the news in recent history, leaving a child alone with a pediatrician could have resulted in child molestation.
Wonder if that didn’t put the kibosh on the doo-gooders?
This reminds me of the AFN network in Germany having the commercials about getting the stocks of trophy Iraqi weapons checked for being booby trapped. Of course it was just a ruse to get some soldiers that illegally took a trophy weapon home.
I’m betting some people who report their home owned weapons will actually be admitting the have illegal weapons in their possession. Just my opinion.
My guns were lost in the great San Pedro flood. Serial numbers were all 867-5309. Amazing coincidence.
Or the great 2018 earthquake.
Either works.
The Johnstown Flood of May 31, 1889, claimed my entire gun collection. Why knows where the guns ended up?
Mine were last seen headed for Macho Grande.
Wait, those can’t be gun serial numbers.
That’s Jenny’s phone number./smile
I will provide that number once my firearm is stolen. If I had one, that is.
XX-xxxxx is a very common s/n.
I wonder if they will get duplicates.
The only one I can remember is 7-4-1776….
Hmmm. Those folks ignorant enough to provide that sort of info may or may not deserve to keep their firearms – BUT, that is not my, or the high sheriff’s, decision to make. The U S Constitution says that they are free to keep them.
Interesting, according to a article I just read, in Arizona you can wear a loaded gun on your person, no permit required.
As a resident in the DPRM, I find this Hi-Larious! When we buy a firearm, we have to fill out a registration form, so the state knows what guns we have.
I was in a gun shop, regrettably gone now, when a ATF agent came in to get a copy of a 4473. There had been a shooting the night before and they had traced the shotgun to this store. The shop didn’t have a fax machine, hi-tech in the mid 90’s, so he came and picked it up. I asked him how long it took to trace the gun. He said less time than it took to drive to the shop. Call the manufacturer, call the wholesaler, then call the gun shop. The mutt who used the firearm illegally had shot his girlfriend and the guy she was playing the Humpty Dance with. He had a valid FID card to purchase the shotgun.
The myth that they need your serial number is just that, a myth. Sorry, Sheriff Lobo, try again.
As many others here have stated, you give the serial number to the police AFTER the gun is stolen.
Then they can return it to you if it is ever recovered.
Giving the numbers ahead of time is just so they know which guns you have when it comes time to confiscate them