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[Ale-8(1)]

I cannot find the reference right now, but I believe we will find that serial numbers have been required on HANDGUNS since some time in the 1920s (?) so the government could verify production to make sure the manufacturers paid the federal excise tax on each one produced.

There are a gazillion old rifles and shotguns that do not have serial numbers, but that's a different situation altogether.

I have no first-hand info on the 1911 situation. Carry on, gentlemen.

:)

 

[Colonialgirl]

The Firearms museum at Woolaroc Ranch in Okla has Colt 1911 "developmental model" that NEVER received a serial number.

 

[Jeepnik]

NO 1911's were made without a serial number...it has been removed....RR

The proper response should have been, no 1911's have been made to my knowledge. Stuff happens. How many funky coins and bills have become collectors items because of an anomaly?

 

[Lucky Joe]

Friend on mine bought a 2" Colt Python without the Colt stamp.

 

[DA_TriggR4Ruger]

Clerical errors happen. Shipments get lost or mislabled. It happens, just ask Eric Holder and the ATF :roll:

 

[Coogs]

Canadian Ross rifles, WWI were not serialized. U.S. bought 17,000 of them or so for training purposes in 1918. The U.S. Gov't stamped Bomb and A SERIAL number on the wood stock under the wrist area of the stock. Just some associated info, I guess, Coogs.

 

[radicalrod]

Gosh I wonder how they got this info if serial numbers were not present....

You guys crack me up....you know they had serial numbers but you come up with all this lame stuff....

You guys can buy all the non serial numbered 1911's you want...I think I will pass :lol: :lol: :lol:

Check out this PROOF HOUSE page.....have a nice day....RR

http://www.proofhouse.com/colt/index.html

 

[radicalrod]

Friend on mine bought a 2" Colt Python without the Colt stamp.

Well the no COLT stamp isn't the RARE part of that gun.....

The 2" barrel would be as the PYTHONS were 2 1/2" :roll: :roll: :roll: RR

 

[gtxmonte]

I love all this "it HAS to be this way" and "no way" they did this or that and they "didn't make" this or that. Truth is, nobody knows for sure about everything that was or was not done. Common phrase on this very site is "you never know with Ruger" guess that can't apply to other companies.

Also messing with older muscle cars all my life, it is not unusual to locate so called "experts" that will go into great detail and provide all kinds of documentation that something doesn't exist.........but yet, there it is. Guns are no different

 

[jpickar]

I love all this "it HAS to be this way" and "no way" they did this or that and they "didn't make" this or that. Truth is, nobody knows for sure about everything that was or was not done. Common phrase on this very site is "you never know with Ruger" guess that can't apply to other companies.

Also messing with older muscle cars all my life, it is not unusual to locate so called "experts" that will go into great detail and provide all kinds of documentation that something doesn't exist.........but yet, there it is. Guns are no different

You are right on there! Any company that was making guns for the government did have serial numbers but after the war these companies had left over guns to sell and if they had serial numbers or not they sold them to the public. They didn't have to be serilized. There were no laws then requiring them to do so. They weren't lunch box guns they were guns being sold to the public.
Too many of you guys aren't thinking this through.
John

 

[radicalrod]

I love all this "it HAS to be this way" and "no way" they did this or that and they "didn't make" this or that. Truth is, nobody knows for sure about everything that was or was not done. Common phrase on this very site is "you never know with Ruger" guess that can't apply to other companies.

Also messing with older muscle cars all my life, it is not unusual to locate so called "experts" that will go into great detail and provide all kinds of documentation that something doesn't exist.........but yet, there it is. Guns are no different

You are right on there! Any company that was making guns for the government did have serial numbers but after the war these companies had left over guns to sell and if they had serial numbers or not they sold them to the public. They didn't have to be serilized. There were no laws then requiring them to do so. They weren't lunch box guns they were guns being sold to the public.


"Too many of you guys aren't thinking this through."John

Well I certainly will agree with your last sentence :!: :!: :!:

The rest not so much.....why do 1 generation COLT SAA's all have serial numbers ???

The SAA's actually have the number in 3 or 4 places....

Then 90 years later they start selling left over guns with no serial numbers :!: :!: :!:

Who's not thinking this through :lol: :lol: :lol:

Have you ever seen a RUGER without a serial number ????

They didn't need them in 1949 but they all have them....

Makes record keeping much easier....The Government wants their excise taxes :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Just show me some actual proof that COLT 1911's were shipped with no serial numbers

and I will be happy to agree with you guys....

Everything I can find says they all had serial numbers......

Change my mind with FACTS not BLUSTER :idea: :idea: :idea: RR

 

[wolfsong]

Bluster comes from ALL directions, apparently. :roll:

Locked, for obvious reasons.