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ncisland11	Import Markings	Lead	[-]
Posts: 16 (10/04/07 04:17 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Tags : None Can any one tell me what the latest craze is on import markings. I'm noticing more and more at shows and on the internet auction sites, these huge ugly import marks on the receivers of Mosins, Mausers and other rifles. And the size of the lettering is very large. They used to stamp them very small and usually at the end of the barrel on the underside. Has there been a change in BATF requirements on import markings or are these guys just looking to get their name noticed???
Dalkowski110		#1	[-]
Posts: 1042 (10/04/07 04:40 PM) Forum Co-host Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	"or are these guys just looking to get their name noticed???" I'm not sure, but I would guess it's that. I haven't heard anything about the ATF regs changing. All I know is Century started billboarding their Mosins and then everyone else started following suit, then they did it to their other rifles, and everyone else also followed suit.
MARV262		#2	[-]
Posts: 8 (10/05/07 11:07 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I think part of the issue involves the ATF regulation that every firearm imported for sale in the U.S. have a unique serial number. If you look at some C&R milsurps such as K31's, some mausers and Yugo M55/66 SKS rifles, the ONLY marking on the receiver is a serial number. There is no model type. Theroetically, it is possible to get two different rifles with the same number on the receivers. With no other identifying marks, it is impossible to tell one from the other from a record keeping perspective. All you are using at that point is an arbitrary name (K31) that does not appear on the receiver itelf. This is why after 1968 Winchester began using letter prefixes on their serial numbers. Before that, they started at 1 and counted up on all models. If you look at Winchester firearms, the model number is placed on the barrel, not the receiver. Somewhere out there are a model 1894, model 1895, model 70, model 75 and model 52 all bearing the S/N 38123. Absent the barrel markings or a knowledge of model types, they are legally indistiguishable. As a CYA, some importers have taken to re serializing the rifles in a way that ensures a unique identifier. There are regulations as to the size and depth of these markings.

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