Harrisracing
Well-Known Member
I would label this as bad advice. Or incomplete at best. My suggestion would be to help them with the assistance of a lawyer. He has the complete picture. You do not so you do not know how what you might say will affect the big picture. And the police lie if they need to in order to get information. That's perfectly legal. It's not the norm that the feds want to check out a gun because they are bored. If there's something more to it, they'd better provide more than "hey, we're in town and wanted to catch up...btw, bring your guns so we can see them."
Good advice. Now that I have re-read this, I agree that they have a reason to be calling the OP. They usually don't go willy-nilly to Academy and pull a random name to see who still has the firearm. A gun trace usually leads them from the manufacturer down the list of FFL's to the first transferee, but that usually means they have possession of the firearm already. In my case, they definitely had the firearm(s) confiscated from a previous place.