How can i find my pistol with Gun serial?

Answer 1

First you have to know if you have a pistol or a revolver, the mere looking at those two terms gives you a fast idea of the difference. It's also a very important legal distinction. with a pistol the barrel and the chamber are one piece. Most pistols also have a receiver, where you place the cartridge and when the receiver closes it pushes the cartridge into the chamber. these both are mounted on the frame. Some have an interchangeable receiver or barrel. You will always have the serial number on the frame, sometimes on the barrel and the receiver. With a revolver your barrel might be a separate piece from the frame. some really cheap ones don't have that feature. Again the serial number WILL be on the frame. Unless it was illegally produced, or illegally imported, OR, the number was filed off. Some people think they're being smart by doing that, all that really does is alert any cop who finds the gun that it's an illegal piece. Since the number is stamped into the metal, it creates stress and compresses the steel crystals all the way through the area of steel where they are. The police investigative technique for finding a 'missing' number is to wrap the gun in wire, to magnetize it, and dip it in a solution with suspended rust, iron oxide, in it. the magnetized area of the gun is right where the stress was placed by stamping the number in. so that's where the rust particles congregate. the cops can then see the number more easily than if it had never been filed off. The number should be right where the manufacturer's name is stamped.