Once it gets sold, impossible to know unless each subsequent owner keeps and gives record when sold. Once it gets sold, impossible to know unless each subsequent owner keeps and gives record when sold.
If serial number information has been published, you can search through it.
If serial number data has been published, yes.
If it doesn't, the bbl has been replaced.
Yes it is illegal to own a gun that does not have a serial number. It is also illegal to remove the serial number off a gun.
You can't. BTW, knowlingly owning a firearm with the serial number defaced is a felony.
If data has been published, you look it up.
serial number T170160 would have been made in 1973.
With just the serial number, nothing.
It would be almost impossible to identify a gun just by its serial number.
If sn data has been published.
If sn data has been published, you can look it up.
Find a book of sn's that has been published on the weapon.