Comprehensive registration laws also require a firearm to be re-registered whenever. Background Check System (NICS) to create any system of registration of. Private Sales Restrictions and Gun Registration. Thursday, January 17, 2013 Support NRA-ILA. Anyone who purchases a firearm from a dealer must pass a NICS check. Running a gun serial number search before you buy will make sure you get a gun that you can legally own and register in your name. Locate the serial number for the gun you want to check. If you are purchasing a gun or checking one that is already in your possession, you can check the documentation that came with the gun.
Only if its registered, that depends on when it was made, when it was sold, who sold it -dealer or private sale- and what state it was sold in. To check your state may have records- usually thru the state police or thru BATF (federal) If if has been sold privately once or more your local police may run it for you If you are looking for manufacturing info contact the manufacturer- or a gun value guide Answer What do you want to check? If you are in a state (or country) that requires registration, a law enforcement official can probably find out who owns it, but an ordinary citizen can't. For some manufacturers and models, it is possible to find the approximate date of production from the serial. But a firearm serial number is not like a car's VIN number with a paper trail of each owner's registration.
FIREARM REGISTRATION Location: WEAPONS - GUN CONTROL; Scope: Connecticut laws/regulations; Other States laws/regulations; Federal laws/regulations; Court Cases; Background; February 9, 2011 2011-R-0074 FIREARM REGISTRATION By: Veronica Rose, Chief Analyst You asked if federal law prohibits states from requiring gun owners to register their firearms. SUMMARY Federal statutes do not prohibit states from requiring gun owners to register their firearms. (But they place some restrictions on federal government use of certain federal firearm databases.) Hawaii, for example, has a very comprehensive registration system, requiring all firearms, with minor exceptions, to be registered. The District of Columbia (D.C.) also requires firearm registration.
And Connecticut is among a few states that have partial gun registration schemes. Connecticut requires assault weapons and machine guns to be registered with the Department of Public Safety (DPS). Even though federal statutes do not prohibit states from requiring gun registration, registration is among several gun control measures that are being challenged on 2 nd Amendment grounds in the wake of two U.S.
Supreme Court rulings that the 2 nd Amendment protects an individual ' s right to possess firearms for lawful use, such as self-defense, in the home ( (128 S. 2783 (2008) and (130 S. Both and stated that (1) the 2 nd Amendment right to possess firearms does not confer a right to possess any firearm, anywhere, and for any purpose and (2) some gun regulation is “presumptively lawful.” But the decisions left it to future courts to determine the constitutionality of gun control measures not specifically cited in the decisions as presumptively lawful.