you can't. The most you would be able to find (as a public citizen), is the manufacture date, etc.
barrel, butt, receiver, under forearm.
SN's were not required until 1968
To identify and account for otherwise identical guns.
None of the existing ORIGINAL guns have serial numbers.
1968
i think if you go to yahoo or google you can type in rifle serial numbers. and there should be a website called gunnumbers.com if you go there you can type in the serial number of your rifle. they have tons of guns cataloged and they should have yours
If sn data has been published you can find out when it was made/shipped and sometimes to who and with what features.
In SOME cases, you can tell when made, and in SOME cases, the model of the gun. In others, it tells you nothing but to distinguish between two identical guns.
Inventory tracking for firearms. BTW, ammunition does not have a serial number.
Find a book with sn data that has been published on that maker. Go to Proofhouse.com and check their sn tables.
SOME guns had serial numbers in the late 1800s. They were required by law on handguns and machine guns in 1934 (in the US) and on rifles and shotguns in 1968.
Not possible. There is more than one gun with the same serial number, some guns were made with NO serial numbers, and data does not exist to translate SN to make/model.