Auction for Stolen firearm?

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I see no reason for thinking it to be stolen - as long as the frame bears a serial number, that's all that is required. One can check the serial number against the NICS record of stolen firearms.
 
SN & data wiped from the gun - as far as I know that makes for an illegal gun wether stolen or not & lends a lot of support to a stolen gun theory.
 
Some guys photoshop the numbers of a gun when posting a picture. (Not having a criminal mind, I'm not exactly sure why, but I think it has something to do with people out there making up phony receipts, and filing "stolen gun" insurance claims or something...)
 
If you look at the pic of the right side you can see the smudge where the serial has been photo shopped out

It also looks , from the pic of the second gun, that the frame and slide are supposed to be matching numbers.
Perhaps the slide was replaced for some reason and the missed matched numbers stood out more than a clean slide
 
This gun may have been from a Police trade in, and the prior owner had the slide ground and reblued.

As long as the SN is on the frame, you can grind or etch the slide any way you want.
 
It definitely looks like a photoshop smudge to me. IMO, the seller would have been better off making it obvious that he was hiding the serial numbers rather than blending them in.
 
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