Registered twice

Thankfully the end is near:

So when the long gun registry came out I had 2 shot guns and a .22 registerd. 2 years ago now I had them all confiscated for unsafe storage. The police ran the serial numbers and determined that they werent registered. But offered to release them 2 months later, only if I registered them right then and there. So again I got the paperwork in the mail. Well I was cleaning out the file cabinet today and found the originals from 2003... funny same serial numbers different registration numbers.

A reply;

I had to register a rifle twice as when i sent in the ifo the forst time, i never got the registration certificate, and when i enquired was told they never got the form, but i had made copies of the forms before I sent them in, so i guess what i sent got lost on a desk some where. also another rifle I registered, I got in the mail a letter and a number, this number I was to stamp, etch on the rifle. when I enquired again about this number I was told that there was no serial number to the rifle, but i told them there was and that i had copies of the paper work that I had sent in.

Now get this, I was told that one reson was that this type of rifle had been produced so many times that the serial numbers where repeating themselves, and thats what I had to put this number on the rifle, and LOL get this, i was also told that maybe the scanner did not pick up the information I had sent in. So I redid the paper work and got it registered with out having to put new numbers on the rifle.

Same gun registered twice

I purchased a Remington 597 VTR two months ago, received the registration card in the mail a couple weeks later and all seemed just as per normal. Today, the mail came with another registration card. At first I assumed that they just double printed it and mailed it off again and didn't think much more about it.
A few hours later I thought I'd just double check the info on the card out of curiosity. While comparing the all the info I noticed that the last 2 numbers on the serial number were different and incorrect on the new card that came.

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Congratulations, you are now the legally registered owner of, and therefore liable and responsible for, a firearm that you don't have, can't find, and can't produce for inspection if they ever want proof that you didn't give/sell/lend it to someone who isn't allowed to have one. If you are lucky, no 597 actually exists with that serial number, so no one can get up to no good with it while it is registered to you. If the CFC doesn't accept your explanation, your best bet may be to report it lost or stolen.