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Glock With No Serial Number
nunn
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Someone bought this Glock in a lot of other guns from a police property room.
There was no serial number on the frame. The metal tag the number was on had been removed.
The gun had its serial number stamped on the slide and the barrel, so the cops (not gun people) probably thought that was sufficient. And the buyer could have inspected the lots in person before bidding, but chose not to.
Strip the frame for usable parts, and then destroy it. It is, after all, only plastic, so the buyer was able to make it disappear.
A little diesel, a little flame, and VOILA!
BTW, the parts brought decent money, so losing the frame was no biggie. This was before generic Glock-style frames were available.
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True BBQ gun. Don
Great. Just send those toxic fumes up for the rest of us to breath. WTG David. Just being sarcastic.
Why can't you keep gun the way they sold it to you ??? If they were alright with it that way, which they must be, then is it legal or illegal for you to process????? I'm just confused as to why a PD would auction off firearms, that are illegal, unless they stated it was for parts?? But then why wouldn't they just remove the illegal part of the gun. I ask because I honestly don't know. Oakie.
PS, we need to bring back the green font for sarcasm!!!
Most cops are not gun people, nor are all of them familiar with the Texas Penal Code. The gun had two serial numbers, barrel and slide, so they were satisfied. They simply didn't know better. I know better. The serial number that matters is the one on the frame.
It's illegal under Federal statutes to remove or obliterate the serial number of a firearm. Buried in the Theft Statutes of the Texas Penal Code, is a tiny proviso that states, ANY object that had a serial number applied by the factory, that was subsequently removed or obliterated, is contraband.
"Contraband" means you can't possess i, and it's subject to seizure without compensation.
I seized a Cincinnati Microwave Escort radar detector that had its serial number scratched off. Made the kid I took it from REALLY MAD. He claimed he bought it, but if he did, he bought it from the fella who stole it.
So what number did the P.D. use to transfer the frame? (Thinking of your A&D book.
My local sheriff has me sign the letter they use as a release. The numbers on the letter are what go in my A&D book.
Just had an inspection, and this very subject came up. Blue skies!
I never ran onto anything like that but we mostly dealt in new guns. Since the P.D. you bought it from has a record of it being sold to you, what did you do about a ledger entry? It no longer exists so it can't come back to bite you, but isn't there paper trail that says you should have it in inventory? Just curious and there's must be a simple answer, but like I said I never had this happen to me. Bob
Is the slide for sale?
I'm pretty sure they used the number from the barrel or slide.
It was, several years ago, and someone bought it.
DISCLAIMER: This incident occurred over 10 years ago, and I do not know the principal involved or where the destruction took place.
Ah, at the bottom of a lake.😉
In that same lot was a pump shotgun with a 17 1/2" barrel.
Easy to deal with.
Separate barrel from receiver.
Sell receiver to a buyer who has a legal barrel.
Sell barrel to a gunsmith who needed it for a custom barrel project.
I guess no one had a tape measure at that PD.
You can buy lots of illegal stuff from lazy or ignorant cops. A business here in Iowa had a pickup stolen and it was found 2 weeks later in Florida. The guy was arrested and the truck impounded. The owner was notified by the cops to come get his truck because it was being charged storage. A local flatbed trucker picked it up and asked if it was good to go; they said it was. There was a pile of dirty clothes on the front seat, but....whatever. So he brought it back, crossing many DOT scales. When he got back to Ft. Dodge the owner moved the clothes and there was $500 worth of meth and a stolen pistol. If the truck would have been searched by the DOT, the trucker would have gone to jail. It was unbelievable. And the Muscatine PD sold an abandoned pickup with a load of wet, decaying leaves in the box; they had the truck 2 years and sold it to recoup storage fees. The citizen who bought it unloaded the leaves and found a dead Mexican national underneath. And the Des Moines PD......well, you get the picture.
When I was in HS, I pumped gas for a few summers. The owner asked me to go with him to the NJSP barracks, to pick up a corvette that had been impounded. I jumped right in, not even old enough to have a DL, and started her up. Lit a cigarette, opened the ashtray, and there were three joints and some coke in there. LOL. I shut it off, ran into the barracks and told the sargent. He just shook his head and mumbled something.