NO more blind obedience
Thanks. I guess I would leave it upto the seller then how they wanted to do it as far as their info. I'll stay present and share what I feel I have to, but not more.
I did my first private seller handgun purchase from a total stranger the other day. He didn't want to wait around for me to do the Metro thing so he gladly gave me several pieces of personal information including pics. I felt it all too intrusive (on him), but it was his call and he was fine with it. I did show him a recent Blue Card of mine and my ID as proof that I most likely wasn't a felon. However, my principals were greatly challenged that day by all that.
Privacy seems to be the hardest "right" to hang onto these days. Too many people think that you're upto no good if you simply wish to not share. Not share is another way of saying "hide". BUT when you hear "something-to-hide" people think you're up to no good. No, perhaps I just like my privacy. Afterall, it IS just a natural human right, the right to privacy. That seems to be a right we have surely lost :-(
My dad always used to tell me (and he was a cop), "Never tell people your business as it will never do YOU any good."
As a seller....Imagine this. A guy calls you and wants to buy your gun. You meet and take cash and he takes the gun. That's it. Nothing more. No ID swapping, no names, no blue cards - NOTHING but cash and carry. Since you were not required to ask ANYTHING, you have no knowledge if he is a Clark County resident, felon or whatever. You have done nothing illegal...that can be proven. Not unless you have knowledge.
Nowhere in the law does it say that you have to ask, inquire, see, require or know anything about the buyer. All it says is that you cannot "knowingly" do blah blah blah. So, if you do not know, then there is no crime.
AND, there is no such thing as "unregister" of your handgun. If you sell to a non-Clark County resident, he will not be registering it. Therefore, it is still in your name with Clark County. But remember that the blue card has absolutely nothing to do with registration of guns. It is a check on YOU. It was a plan devised to do background checks on residents in trying to find known criminals (mobsters). That is quite simply why there is no such thing as unregistering. They check you out and that was all they needed - a way to do criminal checks on residents - with little concern on what guns you own, kept, have. Tying the criminal background check to a "gun registration" is just the way they make it legal.
Remember, nowhere does it say that you have to ask or verify ANYTHING.
If I'm wrong about the facts (not opinions), please let me know.
As a buyer....I would follow the above example but I would require some proof from the seller that the gun were not stolen just to protect myself from buying something hot. I imagine the blue card would do that.