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**44 AMP** · April 24, 2025, 03:48 AM

Something similar has happened to other people in the past and can still happen today, because of manufacturers using the same blocks of numbers for different models of pistols, and because police records are often crap, recording only part of the information.

For example one fellow was accused of having a stolen gun, because "his" gun was in the police records as stolen, listed as S&W .38 caliber ser#xxxxxxx
Its possible for more than one ".38 caliber" S&W to have the same serial number, and be completely different guns.

Your situation might be the result of something similar to that. OR it could also be that the person who filed the report (or entered it into a database) could have made a mistake with the number.

Good Luck

April 24, 2025, 03:48 AM	#3
44 AMP Staff Join Date: March 11, 2006 Location: Upper US Posts: 30,458	Something similar has happened to other people in the past and can still happen today, because of manufacturers using the same blocks of numbers for different models of pistols, and because police records are often crap, recording only part of the information. For example one fellow was accused of having a stolen gun, because "his" gun was in the police records as stolen, listed as S&W .38 caliber ser#xxxxxxx Its possible for more than one ".38 caliber" S&W to have the same serial number, and be completely different guns. Your situation might be the result of something similar to that. OR it could also be that the person who filed the report (or entered it into a database) could have made a mistake with the number. Good Luck __________________ All else being equal (and it almost never is) bigger bullets tend to work better.