posting a pic with the serial number showing

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I don't know or see how anyone could use this information in a harmful way, but something tells me not to do it.

In my ignorance, can someone tell if it's okay or otherwise?
 
It's your personal preference. Someone could call police and report "their" gun stolen which just happens to be the same make, model AND serial number of your gun. It might cause you a hassle to straighten it all out. I'm not saying one way or the other to block out the serial number, that's up to you.
 
I would block it out, it just seems safer that way.

It always surprises me with the ways people can take some information and do something negative with it.
 
The "smudge" retouching tool in a photo editor program makes short work of those pesky numbers.

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Here I wanted to show the "M" stamp that says the gun has been recalled and fixed, but didn't think sharing the s/n added anything in the way of useful content, in the piece I was writing. Not sure what nefarious use someone could make of the number, but I zapped it anyway.
 
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Someone COULD report it stolen and try to claim it but that would be a felony if they have no proof of ownership beyond their claim. It would take a real idiot to try it.

I have never heard of it happening. Many people have been routinely showing serials for years without effect. I don't worry about it. In fact, I have often posted the serial of one of my guns and invited anyone who thinks this would work to try to claim it as his own. It's a Colt #70G30498. Give it a try and see what happens.
 
I have no issue showing serial numbers in my gun pics.

I have all the original receipts for the guns I own so I'd like to see anyone try and claim that a gun I own is really theirs.
 
There have been dozens of threads totally hundreds, if not thousands, of posts on this topic and no consensus is ever reached. The responses seem to cluster around two extremes. The first is that no harm can come of it. The other view asserts that there are legions of criminals/antigunners who patrol the internet looking for serial numbers of guns to report the authorities and that any moment a van full of kevlar-clad ATF agents will be breaking down your door to recover a gun that was reported as stolen by an anonymous tipster.

Feel free to review other threads on the topic for more information.
 
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