You get the money for it (if you did it right.)
*You can also spend time in Jail for selling stolen property.
Pawn shops are a legitimate business, and tightly regulated under state and Federal laws. To pawn anything, you will have to provide them with your ID. If a firearm has been reported to the police as stolen, information on that gun will be entered in the NCIC computer system. When you sell that stolen gun to the pawn shop, and they enter it into their inventory, the computer system recognizes it as a stolen firearm. You get visited by the police who arrest you for possession of stolen property.
You could probably be arrested for possession/trafficking of stolen goods.
Any licenced FFL dealer. So long as it's not stolen and reported as such, you can sell it.
If it is illegal, you will be prosecuted.
Well to be honest the thief drives is like it was stolen and usually wrecks it Sometimes they strip it for all it's useful parts and sell them
There is no universal system that is open to non-law enforcement personnel to check such matters. A police officer can check, but will need to have the gun to do so.
You go to jail. For a LONG time.
what gun are we talking about here
17 years for a handgun but if you sell a stolen rifle or shotgun excluding assault rifles it's a five year minimum up to 12 years
Contact your local police department and give them the serial number. The Police can check on the stolen gun list maintained by the BATFE. If the gun is stolen, the Police will conficate the piece and begin investigation of how it was acquired.
Contact the police.
Expect the police to expect YOU to explain how you came to possess a gun that had been stolen- just like any other property.