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For the government to ban the possession of guns where the serial number has been removed, is to take power from the people and transfer it to the government.
1 posted on 12/29/2022 4:49:13 AM PST by marktwain
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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.


2 posted on 12/29/2022 4:57:56 AM PST by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !7)
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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.


6 posted on 12/29/2022 5:29:16 AM PST by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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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


8 posted on 12/29/2022 5:40:06 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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Yes, no enumerated power is given to require them in the first place.


12 posted on 12/29/2022 6:01:12 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To me, this is the an important point in the Bruen decision.

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.

16 posted on 12/29/2022 6:18:03 AM PST by paulcissa (Politicians want you unarmed so they can control you.)
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Our Colonial ancestors, defending our inalienable right to keep and bear arms, didn't have serial numbers on their rifles.

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.

17 posted on 12/29/2022 6:20:01 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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Bkmk


23 posted on 12/29/2022 6:55:49 AM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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