re: #221 Timothy Watson

The problem is when people who want to sell guns illegally in D.C. or Maryland decide to go down to Virginia where they can purchase as many guns are they want, or just break into houses and steal them.

The only solution is a Federal one.

Dealing with theft of firearms would be the same as dealing with the theft of an automobile under current law. If your titled and registered automobile is stolen and later appears in a crime, and you failed to report the theft, you are in a heap of trouble even if you did nothing more than fail to report the theft.

Likewise firearms: If they were titled or registered and you failed to report a theft, you might be on the hook for a crime committed with it. Under current laws, it is difficult to know how many stolen firearms there are that are not reported stolen. (I would certainly report my shotgun, those things are expensive. With many gun owners that don’t want the government within a mile of knowledge of their firearms, who knows if one would report a theft?)