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  2. Gun serial number - Wikipedia

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    The serial number of this pistol is located under the dust cover on the frame, on the barrel, and on the slide. A gun serial number is a unique identifier assigned to a singular firearm. [A] There is no international uniformity in gun serial numbers. Besides a widespread numerical base, they may contain letters and other typographical symbols ...

  3. Form 4473 - Wikipedia

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    Form 4473. A Firearms Transaction Record, or ATF Form 4473, is a seven-page form prescribed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) required to be completed when a person proposes to purchase a firearm from a Federal Firearms License (FFL) holder, such as a gun dealer. [1]

  4. Improvised firearm - Wikipedia

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    Improvised firearm. A homemade pistol, confiscated by the Swedish Police. Given to the Museum of Vänersborg in 1985. Improvised firearms (sometimes called zip guns, pipe guns, or slam guns) are firearms manufactured other than by a firearms manufacturer or a gunsmith, and are typically constructed by adapting existing materials to the purpose.

  5. Legal Briefing: Ban on Possession of Guns Without Serial ...

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    A daily look at legal news and the business of law: Right to Own a Gun Doesn't Mean Right to File Off Serial Number In the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision finding a state and ...

  6. List of firearms - Wikipedia

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    List of firearms. This is an extensive list of small arms —including pistols, revolvers, submachine guns, shotguns, battle rifles, assault rifles, sniper rifles, machine guns, personal defense weapons, carbines, designated marksman rifles, multiple-barrel firearms, grenade launchers, underwater firearms, anti-tank rifles, anti-materiel rifles ...

  7. List of most-produced firearms - Wikipedia

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    M3 submachine gun: Submachine gun 655,363 [155] SA80: Assault rifle United Kingdom: 600,000 SIG SG 550: Assault rifle Switzerland: 600,000 MG 34: General-purpose machine gun Nazi Germany: 577,120 [156] Browning M1917. and M1919. Machine gun United States: 567,340 [157] [158] Tula-Korovin TK: Semi-automatic pistol Soviet Union: 500,000 [159 ...

  8. Forensic firearm examination - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Forensic firearm examination is the forensic process of examining the characteristics of firearms or bullets left behind at a crime scene. Specialists in this field try to link bullets to weapons and weapons to individuals. They can raise and record obliterated serial numbers in an attempt to find the registered owner of a weapon and look ...

  9. Gun Control Act of 1968 - Wikipedia

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    The Gun Control Act of 1968 ( GCA or GCA68) is a U.S. federal law that regulates the firearms industry and firearms ownership. Due to constitutional limitations, the Act is primarily based on regulating interstate commerce in firearms by generally prohibiting interstate firearms transfers except by manufacturers, dealers and importers licensed ...