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Posted: 3/17/2007 10:07:29 PM EDT
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I bought a WASR-10 rifle a little over a year ago and I can barely read the serial number on the reciever. I dont know if it was always like that, but I assume so (bought new in box from a reputable shop). The first time I noticed it was last week when I was photographing all my guns & serial numbers for archival. If I didnt have the number written on my sales reciept I would not have been able to decipher it. Do you suggest I should deepen it with my dremel? Or could this get me in trouble for altering it? What would you do? Deepen/ touch it up? Engrave it somewhere else? Leave it alone? I want to keep on the right side of the law and also have a means of IDing it if it becomes stolen.. |
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i would engrave it in front of the magwell, and leave the original alone. then since you are documenting your guns, just make a note about the serial#. fed law says you can never alter a serial# ( i would imagine that even means to deepen), but you can mark the gun up anyway you want. you would just be adding marks that happen to be the serial#. however, if your trunnion has the same serial # i wouldn't even bother. my WASR10 has the same serial #s on all the parts. it is an older on, though. the older ones are made from new parts, and at least some of the current ones are made from demilled guns, and the trunnion # doesn't match the serial#. also, defiantely keep the receipt. advntrjnky ETA: when in doubt ask the ATF for clarification, or contact Century. since they added the elctro-pencil serial# they may have the authority to deepen it. |
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I am going to suggest something that may cost you a couple of dollars, but save you in the longer run. Take the gun to an FFL with a set of numeric punches to put another serial number on the gun. He will then record this in his books and give you a receipt, so that if any questions come up later, you have an independent source of verification that no "funny stuff" was going on with the serial number. Leave the original serial number alone. |
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