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The counties will be tasked with reviewing all of their permits. You can bet they'll be focusing on deceased permit holders who've slipped through the cracks as well as people who didn't send their recert paperwork to the state. I have no doubt that the state is hellbent now on weeding out as many permit holders as they possibly can. They haven't trusted the counties to maintain accurate records, which is why they adopted this whole recertification thing a few years ago.
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Decades ago I had a friend whose wife had a shirt tail relative who died and had owned some cheap semi auto. One day a different relative shows up as my buddy gets off night shift and says "Uncle Luigi always wanted you to have this" gives him the .32 and drives off.
My buddy scratches his head, he didn't know this Luigi guy but my buddy is the only one in the family with a gun collection and pistol permit. He goes to bed figuring he'll call me when he gets up.
He gets woken up by an Onondaga County Sheriff Dept investigator threatening to arrest him because the investigator knows he has this 32 and he better drive to Syracuse with the 32. He says "glad to help" hangs up and calls me and says there's no way he's going near this asshole. I take the 32 to a different sheriff, tell them who the dead guy is and give them the gun and get a receipt.
I call the investigator and once he finds out the other agency has the gun he couldn't be happier. I fax him the receipt. He says he spends a bunch of his time tracking down dead people's guns and that the relative with the .32 has been ducking him for months. After dumping the gun on my buddy the investigator either gets called or coincidentally calls and is told my buddy has the pistol