Clark County Handgun Registration

[tcotariu]

Clark County Handgun Registration

I was considering a job offer in Las Vegas and so I went to the Clark County web site to look up the local ordinance about handgun registration (I had heard that even though the State of Nevada does not require this Clark County does). Well I could not find anything so I called the count and was referred to LV Metro. LV Metro referred me to their web site where I found NRS 244.364 which requires any county with local ordinances predating 1989 to update them. It also tells you how and where to register your handgun.

BUT, I see nothing there that STATES the requirement to register a handgun. Is it a requirement or just something that they would “like you to do”? If it is a requirement, where can I find a copy of the statute that outlines that requirement?

Here is the link that LV Metro gave me:
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department

Thanks

[NDS]

There's no penalty for registering you handguns and getting your execrable blue card after the deadline. Also, if you acquire a handgun outside Clark County you just bring it to Metro and register it. The whole thing is a joke. I've heard that, unless there's another crime involved or you give the cop grief, they often escort you to the nearest substation and make you register the pistol then and there. I don't know anyone who has actually had to do it though.

It's actually pretty painless. I bought 3 pistols about a month ago. I met the seller at a station and about 45 minutes later walked out with the pistols and 3 new blue cards. The whole system is a silly-@$$ joke and should be abolished! I've heard that the only reason it survives is a desire by Metro to hold onto some illusion of power it gives them--but again that's hearsay.

[Glock Fan]

Gun Shop owner handed me my new blue card over the counter the last time I purchased a handgun.




gf

[NDS]

Originally Posted by Glock Fan

Gun Shop owner handed me my new blue card over the counter the last time I purchased a handgun.




gf

Dealers do that--some even laminate them for you (the police don't laminate), and the little form that goes along with it hardly adds any time to the transaction, but he asked about guns he already has. :confused22:

[varminter22]

Originally Posted by tcotariu

Clark County Handgun Registration
BUT, I see nothing there that STATES the requirement to register a handgun. Is it a requirement or just something that they would “like you to do”? If it is a requirement, where can I find a copy of the statute that outlines that requirement?

It is in the Clark County code - Clark County Code

12.04.110 Registration of pistols within seventy-two hours.

Any resident of the county receiving title to a pistol, whether by purchase, gift, or any other transfer, and whether from a dealer or from any other person, shall, within seventy-two hours of such receipt, personally appear at the county sheriff’s office, together with the pistol, for the purpose of registering the same with the sheriff. It shall be the duty of the sheriff to register the pistol, and he may, and is hereby authorized to cooperate in any manner he sees fit with other law enforcement agencies, and with licensed dealers, relative to registration of pistols, so that efficient registration shall be secured at minimum cost and duplication. (Ord. 3571 § 3, 2007: Ord. 242 § 11, 1965)

[tcotariu]

varminter22,
Thanks, that is what I was looking for.