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<blockquote data-quote="OK Corgi Rancher" data-source="post: 3867060" data-attributes="member: 45773">I&#039;ve never seen a pawn shop be able to run serial numbers that fast...especially back in the 80s before widespread computerization.&nbsp; Not to mention a near instantaneous response by the police.&nbsp; When I was a cop our city required pawn shops to report their pawn slips within 30 days.&nbsp; Dispatch would then run the serial numbers of various items as they had time...usually on graveyard shift.&nbsp; I&#039;ve never known NCIC (or most state agencies) to allow private businesses access to databases...in most places it&#039;s illegal for state law enforcement agencies to access state databases (in Colorado it was CBI...Colorado Bureau of Investigation) for other than official law enforcement use.Assuming there&#039;s not more to the story, my guess is your brother bought a stolen gun not knowing it was stolen.&nbsp; Which would only support the &quot;don&#039;t show serial number&quot; argument if you had something to hide.I spent a career as a cop and never heard of this being a problem.&nbsp; Never.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="OK Corgi Rancher, post: 3867060, member: 45773"] I've never seen a pawn shop be able to run serial numbers that fast...especially back in the 80s before widespread computerization. Not to mention a near instantaneous response by the police. When I was a cop our city required pawn shops to report their pawn slips within 30 days. Dispatch would then run the serial numbers of various items as they had time...usually on graveyard shift. I've never known NCIC (or most state agencies) to allow private businesses access to databases...in most places it's illegal for state law enforcement agencies to access state databases (in Colorado it was CBI...Colorado Bureau of Investigation) for other than official law enforcement use. Assuming there's not more to the story, my guess is your brother bought a stolen gun not knowing it was stolen. Which would only support the "don't show serial number" argument if you had something to hide. I spent a career as a cop and never heard of this being a problem. Never. [/QUOTE]

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