re: When buying guns from private sellers how do you know they aren't stolen?

quote:

---

There are some security concerns with it, b/c said person could just report the serial number you have as stolen after you give it to them.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


I don't understand this reasoning at all. Can you explain?

---

I don't understand the scenario, either, but here's what I think your're saying. Boom roasted advertises a gun for sale in a person to person transaction. I'm interested in the gun so I call him. I ask for the s/n and he tell it to me. The s/n is run and comes up clean. I buy it from him. Now he's going to call the cops and report it stolen? Why would he do that? If he advertised the gun, there'll be a record of it. How am I going to know the gun's for sale if he's not advertising it in a publication or by word of mouth. If it's the latter, now we're talking about a conspiracy, all over a gun? Doesn't seem very likely to me, but maybe I misunderstood the scenario.