How does Wal-Mart know your gun has been stolen? The answer

[Pat McGarrity]

THIS is the question that has been bothering me since I heard about Wal-Mart climbing into bed with Bloomberg:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gral ... gD901TMV00

BTW, Shelby County Mayor, A.C. Wharton, Knoxville Mayor, Bill Haslam and Oak Ridge Mayor, Tom Beehan are all members of this group:

http://www.mayorsagainstillegalguns.org ... bers.shtml

I suggest that we put our money where our best interest is, by buying guns from retailers that are owned by TFA Members and support TFA.

From TFA Member, Memphis Police Department Detective, Sergeant Jim Williams, Ret:

"Notify TFA members that buying a firearm from WalMart has the potential of all your information being forwarded to the political office of the Mayor of the City of New York. I know from my own firearms retail experience that gun buyers (failing to keep their own records) go back to the gun dealer who sold them the gun in the first place, telling them that their previous gun purchased there has been stolen and asking the store (in this case, WalMart) to look up the serial number for a proper police report in the hopes of getting their gun recovered someday. Here in Memphis, I have recovered and returned to the true owner guns stolen as long ago as 15 years ago. Asking WalMart to help in this manner will result in them reporting you to the NYC Mayor.

By contrast, if you report a firearm theft (taken in a burglary of your home, for example), the local agency will put it in the FBI's NCIC database, which is the proper place for the chance of recovery of your guns and the arrest of the thieves who took it in the first place. Memphis Police do not report it even to the current Memphis Mayor, let alone the Mayor of another city in New York State.

Jim"