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Exactly. There's an entirely different system for running the serial numbers of firearms to determine if they were stolen. While I don't know how many stolen firearms are recovered this way (just between us, I suspect it is very few), law enforcement agencies don't have the right to run checks on gun owners. The police don't get to decide whether or not to return a firearm to its owner; I believe that is a perogative of the courts, and that the judge has to have a very good reason not to before saying the guns cannot/will not be returned.
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