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Serial number error

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I picked up a gunbroker purchase today.

The receiving FFL did not record the correct serial number for the gun. I didn't catch it until I got home and looked at the receipt.

Should I go back and ask him to correct the paperwork?

If his bound book is ever audited, anyone familiar with this particular model of firearm will recognize that the number recorded is not in the right pattern of letters and numbers.
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  • Doc
    I would call him on the phone and tell him.
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  • br549
    A Dealer lost his business because of a serial number screwup. the ATF is tearing him a new one, plus he's looking at 4 to 5 years in Fed Prison.
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  • Warbirds
    Why wouldn't you call him?
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  • Permanently deleted user
    quote:Originally posted by Dave W.
    Why wouldn't you call him?


    I was sort of thinking that there wouldn't be any paper trail directly to me.

    After thinking it over the trail still points right at me with a correct model # even if the serial is wrong.
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  • 1911a1-fan
    not very wise thinking on your part, as if there is no record of you purchasing the gun with correct serial number, and wishful thinking that they would ignore you because 1 dealer made an error

    now if it was the wrong number from the seller to your dealer you may want to expect foul play, the serial numbers recorded may be correct, and you may be in possession of a hot gun, do the right thing for all parties involved in the transaction
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  • Doc
    Isn't your correct name and address and ID number on the "paper trail" even if the serial is wrong?

    All you're doing by not bringing this to the attention of the dealer is putting him at risk for headaches from the ATF.

    No, they won't pull his license or throw him in jail for one mistake, but it makes him look bad to the inspector and he gets more attention after that happens.

    Be a man and step up. You'd want the same courtesy from someone else if the roles were reversed, no?

    How does that old saying go? "Do unto others..."
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  • A J Christ
    Do the right thing and make it right.
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  • Locust Fork
    We buy guns from many many places in our store....handwriting errors, people unfamiliar with guns writing the model number instead of serial number, the serial number being under the grips or forearms so you cannot see....are all errors that I have run into. You can call and tell them you have a serial number error...but the gun may be logged out according to a part number in the computer...so it could still be OK in the log books. Human error...you would think that the HUMANS at the ATF could understand how these things happen. They may need to know....but it would do a big favor to them if you ask for the manager or owner when you call and tell them what happened (an "employee" sometimes brushes these things off because it doesn't haunt their dreams to have an error in the books.) You could also fax the copy of the reciept to them with a note attached.....that would be most helpful to me if it were coming to my attention....because I would tape that paper in plain site until it were fixed.
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