Kyrie, that's the point I tried to feebly make. There could be a situation where the gun was provably stolen--for instance, the theft was reported to the police. There are certain commercial transactions where title to stolen goods can be legitimately passed to the exclusion of claims by the rightful owner but the distinction is a commercial transaction by a seller who normally trades in the goods--Best Buy sells you a stolen TV. However, in some states this may or may not be the rule and it certainly doesn't apply to non-commercial private sales. In those situations you could lose the gun and good luck getting the money back from whom you bought it. It gets worse. In some states a buyer is put on notice that an item is stolen if the deal is substantially below what the object is worth--theft by receiving stolen property. That would only apply to the person who got the "too good to be true deal" and not buyers for reasonable value later. Even if you know the transaction you were involved in is legitmate and above board, why would anyone want to be subjected to possible false claims or even possible legitimate ones?
