We have set out to create a place for victims of gun theft to post their information as well as a place for the rest of the world to to easily search for it. We have no illusions that this will recover everyone's gun or that it is a perfect system. The system is as good as the information submitted.  We believe that anyone posting their own information understands it is in their best interest to be as accurate as possible.  We also understand the political and social climate which we live in so some key information is encrypted.  The serial number is only shown when an exact match is typed in the serial search field.  We have worked very hard to make this site user friendly but at the same time secure.  This site is NOT, was never intended to be, or NEVER will be any type of national gun registry.  The intent here is common ground for gun owners to share information which is valuable to all of us.

We have the attitude that if we help just 1 person then we would be very proud of that.  There is also a larger issue at hand. If it was common knowledge that when a gun was stolen that it went directly into a database that is at the fingertips of everyone in the firearms community, we wonder if there would be as many stolen?  Would that make a HOT gun virtually worthless?  Maybe at some point in the future this is the question that will cross a potential thief's mind.  Whether you prefer to look at us as a site for recovery or theft deterrent is up to you.