George Dickel
Member
On a non-gun forum I participate, in a thread on about criminals and their guns, one poster stated that criminals ground off the serial numbers on their guns. His statement about serial numbers being ground off made me wonder, why do that? In years past a theme in movies and TV shows was that the gun had it's serial number ground off. Before the GCA there was no record of who got what gun when purchased. I would guess that the manufacturers had a record of what retail outlet got the gun but with no 4473 there would be no way to identify who bought it. Is this just more Hollywood nonsense? Is this a common practice now?