It seems that there is a C&R thread about monthly on this forum. Sometimes they make me paranoid and I go check to make sure I remembered to enter everything properly. My only "crime" if audited, would be that I put everything in the book even if after 1898. Of course with the Lefevers I collect anybody can tell you that the relationship between serial number and date of manufacture is suspect.
However, could we actually get a poll of the number of C&R owners who have actually been audited by the BATF? I don't mean harrassement by the local LEO's that has been rightfully exposed as just that above. That is not the first of those stories I have heard. I am just wondering what my chances for an audit are. I would also assume the BATF doing a C&R audit could care less about the 870 under my bed.
Since the BATF has no record of what I buy using it I would also assume that any audit procedure would either be initiated by a random draw, or information from 001 dealers indicating you are buying a lot more than a normal collector would be buying.
I am sorry to hear that California has replaced Hawaii as the least gun friendly state. In Hawaii we have to personally register each and every (even C&R)gun at the police station. It takes me an hour to explain that a Barber and Lefever conversion from a muzzle loader may have two serial numbers, one the original and one placed by Lefever when converted. Yet somebody can walk in with a black gun that could be converted to a fully automatic weapon in 15 minutes with a nail file, and walk out within 5 minutes because they have seen hundreds of them.
