[gaijin]

Freepers should never file the numbers off.

The metal lying beneath the filed region is tested with an acid solution, which reveals for a short time those parts of the metal which received some RESIDUAL STAMPING PRESSURE when the serial number was originally tooled into the weapon.

The investigator then photographs this transient re-emergence of the serial number, and your goose is cooked, just like that.

You must remove the serial number portion of the firearm entirely, or thoroughly dimple the underlying region, so as to obscure this completely invisible evidence.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Didn't he have enough money to buy another gun, for example, one stolen in another state?

[Deguello]

The way to remove the numbers is to drill out each number to a depth of at least 3/16th of an inch. Going out to 1/4 inch is fine and who is worried about the firearm if it is to be trashed.

If the firearm is to be totally trashed, use an arc welder at the highest setting. Use a 220 volt setup and not a 110 wire welder.

[sonserae]

It's real comforting to know you guys know all to well how to get rid of serial numbers off of guns. Glad you don't know where I live.

[medlarebil]

I guess he was wearing gloves or there would have been evidence that he fired a gun on his hand(s)...any gloves found near the scene?

[Kenny Bunk]

Gaijin, I thought everybody already knew this. I saw it on "Barretta," myself.

also, btw, on "Murder She Wrote," that isn't really a very good imtation of the way we speak around here. Maybe (oops "mebbe")they seen too many Peppridge Fahm Commoeshalls in the olden days?