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Originally Posted by Bill Murphy
1. How do you know there was no insurance? 2. How does scanning the FFL gun sales help to find a missing gun when the 4473 does not identify the gun. I am not being picky. I would like to recover my missing gun too.
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Bill, the 4473 does identify a gun by Make, Model, Ga/Cal, Serial Number
The gunsmith or dealer will not have a 4473 for the firearm unless they actually sell the gun to someone, however it will be entered into their bound book.
And the BATF will not have a copy of the 4473 unless the FFL closes and sends all their 4473's to the BATF. ATF will not send an agent to "look" for a missing gun reported by an owner, but if the FFL dealer or gunsmith realizes the gun cannot be located, then they would file a missing firearm report to BATF with all the gun information and it would be noted in the FFL's log book as missing.