When you buy a gun in TN, how long does the TBI/Store keep records of who bought it?

[Guest Guardian5]

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The question about what happened in New Orleans centers around what powers were declared to be owned by whom. The poorly defined State of Emergency is central to this problem.

[RWF]

just for what it is worth, the state only keeps the record for 24 hours if approved and it is done by computer, only time a person from the state is involved, is when it is pending or denied.

also i now i am denied about 50% of the time, then i give my P.I.N. and it is changed to approved in a few minutes. also it is eaier for me to buy a suppresser, sbr etc. than a gun in TN.

[Guest confederatewarlord]

Shipping guns across the mexican border is illegal as well but that hasnt stopped the atf from doing that. I had a gun stolen once. That particular gun had been wrongfully confiscated by an idiot police officer. I had to deal with the atf when the solicitor realized the charges were BS cause i had pawned this gun and gotten it back the day before the charges were officially dropped. All I had to do was take him a copy of the case dispostition and all was good. Why they couldnt just look it up I dont know.

When it got stolen a couple of years later I couldnt find the serial number so I went to the ATF agent I had dealt with and he had the serial number in about 2 minutes. Now I realize this isnt exactly the way a gun purchase usually goes so they may have kept that serial number cause of the situation when I got it out of pawn but there was more than one serial number in that file. He didnt let me read the file of course but I saw what appeared to be more serial numbers on it in the same area he was looking at when he was writing. They could have been something else I guess but I dont think so. Dont know if they were from other guns I had purchased or just some case number or something but they sure looked like serial numbers to me and as I said he was able to give me the serial number to 1 rifle. I would have asked about the rest but at the time I didnt know they werent suppose to keep records like that time.

Edited July 25, 2011 by confederatewarlord

[Oh Shoot]

...the solicitor realized the charges were BS cause i had pawned this gun and gotten it back the day before the charges were officially dropped.....

I'm a little lost in your story there, but can tell you that where pawn shops and guns are concerned, the shop reports all serial numbers to the county sheriff's office (on I think, weekly basis), along with name of the person who pawned it. At least this was the procedure in 1997 in Knox County, as I worked a brief stint in that office. What happens to that local database I couldn't say.

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