Thread: What exactly is the big deal?

Have kind of wondered the same thing myself. The other one I wonder about iis the photo of a HG cocked w/hammer back and a pen, shell, small flashlight, etc. stuck in the trigger.

ooooo, I know about the thing stuck in the trigger guard. Its for displaying your gun. You can try it yourself, it makes taking a picture of your firearm better than just an overhead view of it laying on the table. It kinda props it up, almost like making it say cheeeeeeze!

Originally Posted by nukehayes

.... With having your weapon's serial number publicly displayed? I see pics and videos of peoples gun with the serial edited out, etc. What could someone possibly do, knowing what serial number your weapon is. Could a BG lookup who owns what and potentially steal your gun? I guess I'm just ignorant. Any thoughts on this?

I would think it had something to do with registration more so then about BG’s, something that’s supposed to be illegal for the Government to do.

By displaying the serial number of the weapon it opens the ability of someone to trace that weapon to you.

Just ask Joe the plumber.

I like the anonymity of the web - unless I want someone to know who I am - and I'm sure that is part of it.

In reality it's pretty easy if someone wanted to trace your username back to a person so if one wanted to dig enough and had a little computer know how it's not as hard to get the serial off a gun weather it's been smudged or not.The only real plus to hiding it is if there might be an issue with someone owning a weapon that the serial might cause them problems. All the Mod+ on this board should have access to most of the logs and IPs are logged. But the other simple truth is it's just way too much a waste of time to go through all that. So hiding the serial is a non issue for me. All my weapons were bought legally they all will come back to me. Even when I trade person to person I write up a bill of sale with the serial on it and both myself and the new owner get a copy for their records. THe worst case scenario l is someone sees a serial then tries to report it stolen. God record keeping makes the point moot. And unless you do all your shopping personm to person there is already a pretty long paper trail to you from that weapon.