that is a solvable problem."īoggs said she doesn’t foresee any potential political holdups for creating a database, which she thinks would be a bipartisan issue. "This is definitely something I would be interested in being in support of and trying to figure out what systems need to be built," Boggs said.
#Stolen gun serial number lookup update#
Kristin Boggs, a Democrat from Columbus, said the idea of a database is something she would like to learn more about, particularly the infrastructure that Florida used to build and update its database. The results come back within seconds, similar to a Google search. "It should reduce those knowingly being sold."Īnd though Delbert says he doesn’t believe the selling of stolen firearms is a huge problem, he noted it is hard to know how big the problem actually is because there’s no way to verify how many stolen firearms are changing hands.Ībout 10,000 guns a year are stolen nationally from gun stores, Delbert said.įlorida has a website where any person can put in a firearm’s serial number and determine whether, based on Florida law-enforcement records, the gun has been reported stolen. "I don’t want to run the risk of the guy across from me saying it is stolen," he said.
It puts the bad guys on notice that they can’t sell to the gun store to get drug money real quick."ĭelbert said a website or a phone app that could search a gun’s origin would cause those looking to sell firearms they believe to be stolen to take pause before trying to sell those guns at gun shows or through private sales. "We get frustrated in that so much of this debate is done in the political spectrum and media. "It’s not a cure-all for gun violence, but it’s one piece of the puzzle," Delbert said. That approach, however, isn’t practical, he said. purchases guns from estate sales and conducts trade-ins for firearms five to 10 times a day, with about 400 used firearms in stock during the holiday season.ĭelbert said the only way to check whether a firearm has been reported stolen is to call police and have them come out to take a report and run the firearm’s serial number through a law-enforcement database. "People come to a reputable store and they assume they’re buying a gun that hasn’t been stolen, but there are no guarantees in that because there’s nothing we can do to check it." "Our contention has always been if there’s stolen guns out there, not just us, but any individual should have the ability to see if it’s stolen prior to purchasing it," he said. Firing Range on the Northwest Side, said he and others who buy guns from private citizens have wanted a change for years. Columbus - Eric Delbert, co-owner of L.E.P.D.
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