Thread: Trade me has firearms database

Originally Posted by Gibo

This thread is quite misleading, they do not appear have a data base, they appear to have a system to send a number through to police to get a y/n on valid license. I cant see the harm or am I missing something?

Not entirely. The list of firearms for sale and sold and to and from whom are all held in a database. They also obviously, from reports of folk on this forum putting in the wrong numbers, got a database of members and their FAL number already. Really there is nothing knew here, they are just using some of that information that they already have to do a quick yes/no validity check.

With their address verification it does make it a bit more difficult for crims to run a black market through a pretty public medium. Not even the real crims are that stupid, so realistically it won't achieve a lot but it will make Police and TM happy because they'll feel like they're trying to do something.