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Feb 11, 2009, 8:26 am

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jkhuggins

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Originally Posted by swei0009

Depends where the OP lives. Not every jurisdiction requires a license / permit / FOID card to buy a gun. There's no government record of me purchasing ANY firearms (unless someone is illegally keeping records of the NCIS check, which I doubt happens here). If CPB asked me that question, I'd laugh it off.

I would guess the CPB agent was fishing, or looking for nervousness that could indicate the OP's brother was trying to get into the US on the OP's papers.

Or, it could be the other way around. It could be that the CPB agent, in the process of trying to verify the OP's identity, found that the OP already had a license for a firearm, and asked the question to confirm the OP's identity.

But this is just speculation on my part ...

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