Click to expand.There would be a number of reasons a person would 'check' a gun's serial number. For example, in a private sale, the seller or buyer may want a receipt that lists the gun (ie: Glock, serial # ABC123). Or a recently purchased (used) gun and the new owner went to the police to verify it's not a stolen item. Or a gun dealer using make and serial number for inventory control. Even a gunsmith should record customers' guns by make and serial number to prevent mix-up. Or list of guns for insurance purposes.

The point is, the gun's make and serial number are both part and parcel to identifying that particular gun. Click to expand.Not that it affects your point very much, but you might have to re-do your math.

There are at least four letters that are not used in 'normal production' Glock serial numbers: O, I, J, Q. 'O' can be confused with the numerical digit zero, so it's not used in serial numbers by many firearm manufacturers. Same for the letter 'I', which can be confused with the number 1. Glock uses the letter 'J' in special factory serial numbers, such as cutaway models. 'Q' is also easy to misread as a zero or letter 'O', but is also used in special factory serial numbers. However, some of these letters HAVE been used in special-issue pistols, such as a police department that wants their department initials used as the serial number prefix, so you'll find an occasional 'IPD###' or 'OHP###' or similar serial numbers. Browse through this Serial Number Research Project thread to see examples of letters not used, or special-use serial numbering.

To fully identify some pistols, you have to not only have the manufacturer, model, caliber, and serial number, you have to know where the production plant was located where it was made. For instance, Lugers made during WWII used the same serial number blocks at different production plants, so if you don't know the factory code, you can't really 'identify' the pistol. I found out about this when a friend of mine was arrested for possessing a stolen pistol. We were in the military, and he had brought a military Luger that had been in his family for 40+ years back from leave, and registered it on base so he could keep it in base housing. The cops showed up at our workplace a few days later, and took him away in handcuffs to question him about a stolen pistol, as a Luger with the same serial number had popped up in a NCIC check of his registration form info.

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Once I found out what was going on, I went and talked to our commander (who was a gun owner himself, and fairly gun-savvy), and asked him to look into it. He found a Luger collector that submitted a letter on the duplicate serial number problem with Lugers, and luckily, my buddy's family had an old certified form (insurance?) that demonstrated the pistol had been in their family since well before the pistol listed in NCIC had been stolen. A combination of these two factors got him released and his gun returned, but I've always remembered the circumstances, in case something similar ever happened again to someone I knew. I cannot imagine any modern manufacturer would be re-using serial numbers (it happened in the past, but for this market would be a royal pain!).

They can change serial number format (change the order, add a letter or number, etc.) very easily. 17M (slightly less with the corrections for disqualified letters noted above) is a lot of guns, but eventually you run out of numbers. Not all Glock's were made with the same serial number format, so that is not an accurate count of guns in the wild. For frame of reference using US Firearms Industry Survey (2013 and 2014 was most recent I could locate quickly), we see the following: • There were 5.4M civilian pistol purchases in the U.S.

(all brands) in 2013. • There were a total of 4.44M pistols made in the US in 2013. • For 2013 total manufacturing (including export): Ruger=1.1M pistols.

SIG(NH)=551,001, FN(SC)=110,279, Jimenez(NV)=60,416. • In 2013, Austria imported a total of 932,117 handguns (and most here would probably agree it is primarily Glock, with some smaller percentage of Steyr). Smyrna was hitting its stride about then. • From 1999 to 2010, the range of combined new /used imported firearms (all manufacturers, including handguns, rifles and shotguns, but specifically excluding military purchases) was between 1.4M (lowest, in 1999), and 3.6M (highest, in 2009). Sims 3 Pets Flea Collar.