No serial number
This is a purely hypothetical question to piggyback on WVDuece's question. If you happen to find yourself in possesion of a pistol like that, could you take it into the BATFE, explain the circumstances of obtaining the gun, give a sworn and written statement, give the gun to them and call it a day or would you be screwed. Like I said this is purely hypothetical (my curiousity is getting the better of me) but wouldn't the feds rather have it turned in and destroyed than take the chance of someone finding it and using it.
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I bought a Fox/Savage model B 410 sxs 20 years ago. Single trigger, vent rib, case hardened receiver, elaborate flying ducks and cattails engraved on the under side of receiver, the "FOX" spelled out in scroll work on either side of the receiver. The only number on the gun anywhere is a 710 in a small oval on the underside adjacent to the ducks. On the barrels is "Patent Applied For".
Anybody know why there is no serial number?0 -
If it was made before 1968, it didn't need one.
Now, if it had one and it was removed/defaced, that is a BIG NO NO
Check on the "water table" - part of the receiver that the barrels come up to.0 -
There was no legal requirement to serialize U.S. made rifles or shotguns prior to 1968. Because of this many manufacturers didn't put serial numbers on their lower priced models. 0 -
Ducks on the reciever was made before 1968. Ergo no need. Great little shotgun. I also have one. 0 -
As mentioned, check the watertable and the bottom flats of the barrel, and also on the underside of forend stock piece. High quality guns almost always were serialized (even though there was not a legal requirement to do so until the GCA of 1968). 0
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