Secret Serial Numbers?

[Sylvain]

I thought the "secret" serial number was the one covered by a piece of tape to fend off overzealous "number running" police officers?

Not sure if that actually works or not.
A LEO could remove the tape and tell you it fell off, or even just put it back.

 

[rockhopper46038]

Maybe we'll get lucky and one of the lawyers will opine on whether the police officer would be breaking the law to do that.

 

[USMC-Johnson]

They arent necessarily "secret" serial numbers but there are several methods that some manufacturers use that arent as simple as a number. They use different patterns on the inside of the slide that look like random little light drill marks.

 

[Sylvain]

Maybe we'll get lucky and one of the lawyers will opine on whether the police officer would be breaking the law to do that.

I think we already had threads about that and it was ruled that the LEO would need a warrant to remove the tape and look at the SN.
Im just saying if the LEO goes to his patrol car, with your gun, you have no idea if he ran the serial number, wrote it down or whatever.

 

[rockhopper46038]

Eh. Mine aren't stolen anyway. But if a firearm came back as stolen after the officer removed the tape...?

 

[Sylvain]

Eh. Mine aren't stolen anyway. But if a firearm came back as stolen after the officer removed the tape...?

Yeah I guess then he would have to explain to your lawyer how he managed to see the SN thru the tape.

 

[Erich]

I'm a criminal defense lawyer. I'd expect to hear some variant of "Surprisingly, it fell off." And the judge would say, "Move on, counsel."

When The Judge Says ?Meh? | Simple Justice

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Pffft, you and your WILD conspiracy theories.

 

[HoughMade]

Maybe we'll get lucky and one of the lawyers will opine on whether the police officer would be breaking the law to do that.

Under what circumstance is Officer Friendly handling your gun?

...keep it PG

 

[rockhopper46038]

Personally, I foresee no such circumstance arising for me, at least not in an official capacity. But since they say in my business that locks keep men honest, so would I like to help keep a police officer from doing the wrong thing were I to encounter such a situation.

 

[searpinski]

Ok, that jives with other gun culture rumors, confusing proposals with reality. There's a lot of magical thinking/wish fulfillment among us. E.g. Obama makes a proposal to expand mental health information in NICS and the Internet freaks out about the police "taking guns."

When I was working at Galyan's in 1989 I remember I co-worker babbling on about how semi-auto rifles were "highly illegal" now and Galyan's had to stop selling them or he would call ATF as "Congress banned them". He was actually misreporting a proposal by Metzenbaum. He wouldn't shut up, "dem gunz are banned". I told him to go up on the roof with a pair of field glasses and give us an early warning for the raid teams.

Now I know why Galyan's went under. You were posting on INGO instead of working.

 

[Erich]

Now I know why Galyan's went under. You were posting on INGO instead of working.

Yeah, on DARPANET.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Now I know why Galyan's went under.

No way. Pike Plaza always had the cleanest counters and the most smudge-free guns when I was there.

 

[output]

I don't think manufactures would go for something like this...unless Google, apple, or AT&T start making guns.