Thread: What am I looking at? 5 screw .38 S&W engraved with ribbed barrel
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Old 05-16-2018, 09:22 AM
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There were a couple S&W 1917s in a recent online auction that had ATF-assigned replacement serial numbers. You can petition them to issue you one, then have a licensed gunsmith stamp it. Odds are good that they will accept that the SN was removed before doing so became illegal in 1968.
There is, however, a slight chance that they will confiscate and destroy it.
I would go that route first. If they decide to destroy it, they would still let you strip it and keep all the parts but the frame.
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