From what I understand if you grind or file a serial number off they can still look microscopically at the metaI and see the number because of impression that goes through the metal. I don’t know how deep that will go with that method.
I have three guns that I purchased from gun dealers. Over the last 30 years. The other five guns I inherited from my father, and transported them 2,500 miles in my car to my home. One’s a really cool semi automatic shotgun. Another is a Glock 17 that’s never been fired with a couple of 30 plus round magazines.
It’s been almost 2 years and I have yet to fire any of them even though they came with about 5,600 rounds of ammo.
I’m a bit confused by this. Let’s say I bought a S&W .45, and I ground the serial numbers off. How is that an advantage to me? Why would I want to do that? The government knows I bought a S&W .45 anyway.
Now let’s say I inherited a legal gun. If for some reason the Feds came to confiscate my guns, I don’t think missing serial numbers would help me.
Anyway, I think I’d want to keep the numbers on. If my gun gets stolen, there’d be a slight chance I could get it back
Yes, no enumerated power is given to require them in the first place.
From the decision in USA vs Price - "Serial numbers were not broadly required for all firearms manufactured and imported in the United States until the passage of the Gun Control Act of 1968". Prior to that "the first legal requirement for serial numbers did not appear until 1934 when Congress passed the National Firearms Act".
Also from USA vs Price - "Even in 1968 there was no prohibition on mere possession of a firearm that had the serial number altered or removed. In fact, it was not until the Crime Control Act of 1990 that Section 922 was amended to insert “or to possess or receive any firearm which has had the importer’s or manufacturer’s serial number removed, obliterated, or altered and has, at any time, been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce.”
Any politician or collectivist that tells you they're not trying to take your arms is FOS.
Evidence numbers are assigned to items after a crime has been committed, not before. Requiring an evidence number on a firearm is an assumption of guilt, in direct conflict with the presumption of innocence (innocent until proven guilty) in the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
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