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Thank you, I learned something new today.
There’s more info in that data matrix scan code than just the serial number, although that is at the end. My phone can scan it. iPhone 7. QR Reader app. I do need to take a hi-res photo first and enlarge it.
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Makes one wonder how long it will be before humans receive one at birth. 
Rastoff
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It's not a QR code, but something similar. It does have the serial number. It's better to think of it as a unique identifier.
Your phone might be able to scan it, but does it give the serial number? My phone doesn't read it. We have something similar at work to help with inventory and ours is a special reader.
Your phone might be able to scan it, but does it give the serial number? My phone doesn't read it. We have something similar at work to help with inventory and ours is a special reader.
This block of information is a datamatrix. The QR Reader App can read datamatrix codes.
Using Wingspar’s example from his 7/1/2017 thread referenced earlier, the app produces:
[)>0617V553581P3005932SNAV28XX (last two digits changed to X for privacy).
Indeed, the unobscured beginning of his serial number shown next to the datamatrix on his gun begins NAV28____ which matches the latter part of the numeric code.
However, there appear to be two or possibly three other sets of numbers that may include manufacture location, date and very specific version/model numbers.
Two 1 Gen 9mm Shields of mine have datamatrix codes:
[)>0617V553581P423630000SHDD35XX
[)>0617V553581P423630000SHLL91XX
And a Gen 1 FS M&P 9mm FDE:
[)>RS06GS17V553581P396960000S HNH89XX RSEOT (Serial # separated by me) Manf date from box = 052516
Note the similarities/dissimilarities in certain groups of all three of these numbers. There is more going on there than just a serial number, despite what S&W CS represented. Some of these sets of numbers are different than those on the box labels and their corresponding bar codes. Serial # and bar codes are of course the same.
Using Wingspar’s example from his 7/1/2017 thread referenced earlier, the app produces:
[)>0617V553581P3005932SNAV28XX (last two digits changed to X for privacy).
Indeed, the unobscured beginning of his serial number shown next to the datamatrix on his gun begins NAV28____ which matches the latter part of the numeric code.
However, there appear to be two or possibly three other sets of numbers that may include manufacture location, date and very specific version/model numbers.
Two 1 Gen 9mm Shields of mine have datamatrix codes:
[)>0617V553581P423630000SHDD35XX
[)>0617V553581P423630000SHLL91XX
And a Gen 1 FS M&P 9mm FDE:
[)>RS06GS17V553581P396960000S HNH89XX RSEOT (Serial # separated by me) Manf date from box = 052516
Note the similarities/dissimilarities in certain groups of all three of these numbers. There is more going on there than just a serial number, despite what S&W CS represented. Some of these sets of numbers are different than those on the box labels and their corresponding bar codes. Serial # and bar codes are of course the same.
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