Asked if my firearm was registered?

[PA-Joe]

Last Saturday, after turkey hunting, I drove by the old shooting range at SGL 127 to find out if the range was still openned. Early in the morning I heard shooting from that general area. When I approached the range I was stopped by two Pocono Mountain Regional Police Officers. They were investigating the shooting since the range is now closed and the area is now marked as a "Restricted Area." One of the first things the officers did was ask to see my hands and if I had any firearms in the car. After noting that I had a shotgun in the trunk one of the officer asked if it was "REGISTERED TO ME?" After thinking about the question, I replied that: "Since there is no registration system in PA the answer was no it is not." The officer then asked, "But, you do own it correct"? To which I stated, yes. They then asked if I had heard any shooting earlier in the morning and recommended that I leave the area since there are bad guys around. We all turned around and left the area.

Other than that, an unevenful day.

[CHEMICAL]

I'm surprised they don't have the access road to the old range chained off somehow. Glad to hear you weren't proned out in the mud and disarmed!

[jjeez]

What did I miss? what shooting?
This registration thing seems to come up a lot?
I posted a story in another thread about my BIL having a cop check his gun in the registry.

[PA-Joe]

It was not a shooting. Some one was target shooting at the old range. When I drove by I saw that someone had set up paper targets on some fallen trees. To the best of my knowledge Plank Road is a county road and still provides access to a lot of game lands and waters along the Lehigh River. I think the officers believe that the entire roadway is now a restricted area.

[tommy610]

You can't blame them, because apparently there really is a gun registry. They keep forgetting the party line that there is none.

[jjeez]

You can't blame them, because apparently there really is a gun registry. They keep forgetting the party line that there is none.

that is what i am thinking...I said something in another thread and was told to take off the tin foil hat..I am the last one to be a conspiracy theorist but this is looking more and more to be true.

[rmarkob]

Good thing I bought my last shotgun in a contiguous state.

[BimmerJon]

After noting that I had a shotgun in the trunk one of the officer asked if it was "REGISTERED TO ME?" .

Your Answer: Officers, do you and/or your department maintain an illegal registry of firearms?

[Steve in PA]

I believe you mean SGL 127?

I have not been up that way in a while, but I do believe Plank Road would be open since people hunt and fish along that road.

In addition, since this is all Game Lands, why would police officers be doing the investigation instead of the WCO's??

The "registry" is a bad act passed on by previous officers who fully believed there was a registry and therefore what they were doing was legit.