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^^^ditto^^^, sure would look funny me having the receipt and someone reporting it stolen.
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Unless you carry the receipts with you at all times, your chance to prove you have the receipts certainly may come AFTER you have been arrested, booked, and/or charged with a crime.
While not from a gun image online, when I worked in a pawn shop, we had 2 particular guns seized (handguns). The owner was arrested for the stolen guns. He did not have the receipts and it would not have mattered if he had given that he was arrested away from home (where most folks keep such records). Eventually, things were cleared up. The report was given by a disgruntled former roommate who was seeking revenge on our customer. He had actually reported a lot of things stolen several months prior, but only the guns had been pawned. Before they split, the upset roommie had copied down makes, models, SNs, etc. of many of our customer's items. Being arrested caused numerous problems for our customer, though in the end he was cleared, record expunged (or so I was told) and the roomie arrested.
The reason I am familiar with the incident as this was back when all of our pawn tickets were collected weekly by the police and so we were kept in the loop on what was happening with the case regularly.
Is letting folks know the SN a big threat? No, of course not. However, it is a simple precaution that could prevent you from suffering a lot of hassle you don't deserve.