Glad you got the rifle back, now I’m gonna slightly side track. The atf, Leo, any of them don’t give two shits about stolen guns, if they did, they would have a public searchable database or at the very minimum, one that an ffl can search. As an ffl we use hotgunz when we trade for any firearm. That only works if the owner or someone put the serial number into it.
A friend had 3 guns stolen about 3-4 years ago, one had a suppressor on it, filed a report with all serial numbers. Fast forward to about 6 months ago, and I’ll be damned if one don’t walk into my store with a crackhead trying to sell it, fucking suppressor and all! Got all the guys info, then proceeded to let him know that this gun would not be leaving our shop, and he would not be receiving any money.
Called a deputy,he came up and ran the numbers through ncic and guess what? The gun came back clean, the dumbfuck cop that took the report never put any of the serial numbers in there. Hotgunz was the only place them serial numbers showed stolen for the last 4 years. So if y’all have any gun stolen or think something is stolen, check HOTGUNZ!!!!! It’s about the only thing is plebes got.