Guns in the river

[Gaspar]

Let me follow up with that. . .Some dealers have the Call/Check system and a fax machine at the gun shows, and this can bypass the waiting period, but when you leave with the weapon it is registered to you!

[Conan71]

Any purchase or exchange (handgun) at a gun show goes through the exact same background check.  When you purchase a handgun at a gun show, you do not leave with that weapon.  It is transfered to a local dealer and you pay a small fee for the check.  After 5 days you can pick up the weapon.  Any purchase or exchange of handguns by non-dealers still require registration.  Anyone participating as a collector or exhibitor at a gun show must have a dealer's permit or be operating under the permit of a local dealer. 

I love gun shows!

As you are aware I enjoy my 2nd Amendment rights and go to gun shows occasionally.  A friend of mine sets up at the two Wanenmacher's shows each year.  He's most definitely a collector and not operating under anyone's permit much like the several hundred other collectors who come to buy and sell.

If you buy from an FFL at the show, they call in the check and you leave with the weapon as soon as you are cleared which is instantaneous.  You can pay cash for a handgun or long gun from any number of private collectors and walk out without so much as a background check.  As well, you can walk into Academy, Sports World, Dong's etc. and walk out 15 minutes later with a handgun if your record is clean.  I believe the 5 day wait expired some time back.

[RecycleMichael]

I don't believe Aquaman's story. I think it is all wet.

He is probably a double naut spy and this thread is being monitored. If I were you guys, I would go throw all my guns in the river right now. Don't say I didn't warn you.

[Gaspar]

As you are aware I enjoy my 2nd Amendment rights and go to gun shows occasionally.  A friend of mine sets up at the two Wanenmacher's shows each year.  He's most definitely a collector and not operating under anyone's permit much like the several hundred other collectors who come to buy and sell.

If you buy from an FFL at the show, they call in the check and you leave with the weapon as soon as you are cleared which is instantaneous.  You can pay cash for a handgun or long gun from any number of private collectors and walk out without so much as a background check.  As well, you can walk into Academy, Sports World, Dong's etc. and walk out 15 minutes later with a handgun if your record is clean.  I believe the 5 day wait expired some time back.

I haven't been in about two or three years (since the last kid was born).  So, I assume you are probably correct.  I know the idea of the Call/Check was to do away with the 5 day period, and last time I went the only ones who could do it were the ones with fax machines who could actually scan and send a copy of your Driver's License.  The address printed on your license had to match 911 records. 

That's good news because I hated having to wait and then drive all the way to BFE Tulsa to pick up my guns. 

When I need a gun, I need it NOW! 

[TheTed]

Five days??? But I'm mad now!!!

http://youtu.be/xIpLd0WQKCY

[heironymouspasparagus]

I called in sick today...the voices in my head told me to stay home and clean the guns!

[AquaMan]

So....I am in possession (probably) illegally of a most likely unregistered, possibly stolen, likely used in a crime, type of plinker gun. My first gun and its already causing me grief.

I'll call TPD and have them pick it up. Meanwhile, throw any other guns you don't want to get caught with into the river, from the 21st street bridge, off the 5th light post from the east end.

Much appreciated-

[Cats Cats Cats]

Aquaman doesn't use guns anyway, he uses harpoons and talks to dolphins.

[nathanm]

Waitaminute, we have mandatory firearm registration in Oklahoma? Unless federal law changed when I wasn't looking, the Brady check isn't "registration," it's supposedly just to make sure you aren't a felon or otherwise ineligible to own, and only FFLs are required to do them before transferring ownership.

[Townsend]

Aquaman doesn't use guns anyway, he uses harpoons and talks to dolphins.

and his hand was chewed off by piranha...

[Conan71]

Waitaminute, we have mandatory firearm registration in Oklahoma? Unless federal law changed when I wasn't looking, the Brady check isn't "registration," it's supposedly just to make sure you aren't a felon or otherwise ineligible to own, and only FFLs are required to do them before transferring ownership.

Oh and yeah, no one keeps the records after your check comes back clean.  Riiiiiiiiiight....

[AquaMan]

Update: called TPD non emergency and they sent out a patrolwoman. She asked how I found it. When I started to unwrap it from the cloth she got nervous about whether it was chambered/loaded whatever. I assured her it was frozen and inoperable. After telling her the story I told her what kind of gun it was, including the year it ceased production and how long it had probably been submerged. She looked at me a bit accusing and asked how I knew so much about the gun.

"I know people on the internet." IOW, I know high people in low places.

She took both guns (the other one a Daisy air pistol), my name, DOB, phone number and said thanks.

Finis.

[Gaspar]

Waitaminute, we have mandatory firearm registration in Oklahoma?

Only when a handgun changes "hands."  I would assume some "farcical aquatic ceremony" in which a person receives a firearm that they did not previously own would count.

Otherwise gun dealers would just go on down to the river and toss the weapon on a sand bar, then I could drop some cash on the same sand bar and we could both walk away legally with our new find.

[AquaMan]

Only when a handgun changes "hands."  I would assume some "farcical aquatic ceremony" in which a person receives a firearm that they did not previously own would count.

Otherwise gun dealers would just go on down to the river and toss the weapon on a sand bar, then I could drop some cash on the same sand bar and we could both walk away legally with our new find.

Sooo....we have an agreement. 7pm? $100?

[Ed W]

I've seen a lot of things in the water, including mermaids in my younger days, but it seems that stuff like this is more common:



Never seen a gun, though.